mantis
螳螂,螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后,螳螂螂人,螳螂螂
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plural man·tis·es, man·tes [man-teez]. /ˈmæn tiz/.
- : any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
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The other camera was used to film fish and mantis shrimp, so you had to get the camera and laptop into underwater housing.
Not long ago, he came across a description from more than 40 years ago of how a mantis shrimp navigated beaches.
These weapons emerged about when the mantis shrimp larvae first begin feeding on live prey, after exhausting the yolk sacs they were born with, Harrison says.
This mantis species is rarely encountered by researchers and might be thinly spread throughout the rainforest, so locating receptive mates could be particularly challenging.
This odd organ is unlike anything seen in mantises before, researchers report online April 21 in the Journal of Orthoptera Research.
An ex-wife of one of her conquests had even described her as a “praying mantis with a terminator smile”.
A few days later, Hafernik found more bees, and again fed them to the mantis.
A 15-year-old girl is “a five-foot-ten-inch mantis of legendary poise and ballet repute.”
And the mantis is so voracious that you can cut her in two without making her let go; a chain, truly, of carnage.
The Praying Mantis is a bright green; she boasts an elongated prothorax and an alert gait.
The Mantis-killing Tachytes, for instance, preys indiscriminately upon all the Mantides that occur in her neighbourhood.
Their centres of innervation will therefore be stabbed as well, with the leisure which the Mantis, now put out of action, permits.
And the entire race is not bound to the habits of the mantis or of other insects equally melodramatic.