What is the praying mantis?
praying mantis is a fascinating insect belonging to the Madtodea family. There are more than 2,000 mantid species ranging from 2/5 inches (1 cm) to 6 inches (15.24 cm). This insect is harmless to humans and can be found in tropical and warm climate around the world from South Africa, all of America, South Asia, Australia and Europe.
The coloring of the Mantis prayer ranges from light green to pink, most of which fell in a green or brown category to mix into their environment. This excellent camouflage serves the purpose of fighting them from their numerous enemies and helps in their hunting skills. Characters of a similar type are often wrong with a branch or leaves, and it was even known that they were going on without realizing it.
The praying mantis has five eyes, allowing them to be impressive predators. They have two large folded eyes placed on the sides of their head and three simple between them. Some days are able to see up to 60 ft (18 meters). Their triangleElík's head and long neck allow them to turn their heads by 180 degrees.
It is easy to understand why the prayer mantis was named as such, because their front legs are located as in prayer. Their thick thick legs have spikes to grab and attach their prey when they attacked their strong jaws.
praying on the breed for dinner on beetles, butterflies, crickets, flies, locusts, moths, spiders and many other insects. Their digestive systems also allow them to eat small frogs of trees, hummingbirds, lizards, small rodents and snakes.
Due to their diverse appetite, they are a great help for farmers in the agricultural control of the pests. For this purpose, the United States imported several species from Europe in the 1920s. Environmental farmers buy prayer eggs Mantis annually to help them with their crops.
afterFor decades, it has been believed that the cloaks were cannibalistic and there is still a discussion about whether they eat their own species. It was often reported that a woman would eat a man after mating. Later studies revealed that this behavior was only in laboratory observations or when exploring them in the wild. Now it is believed that because the praying is spilled so sensitive and realizes their surroundings that the behavior has been strictly caused by stress.
After late summer mating, the woman will lay in the autumn from 10 to 400 eggs. The outer hard shell protects the egg columns during the winter months and the following spring hatches the nymphs. These small versions of adult feasts, small flies and leaphopper until they do not grow wings, functional genitals and develop their color and protective body.
In the cold climate, the praying Mantis will die in the winter and the tdal generation will continue next spring. With a warmer tropical climate, they enjoy the lifetime of 10-12 months.
Ancient China referred to a man prayerTis with attributes of courage and fearlessness. The ancient Greeks honored them as prophets. In Japan, Amber has been closed in it for 87 million years, that many believe it is a lack of link between modern insects and its ancestor. This suggests that prayer cloaks are cousins of thermit and cockroaches. There is only one species that is listed as "lower risk/almost endangered".