| 单词 | mantis |
| 例句 | Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We near the top of the tunnel, which means we are nearing the front tip of the mantis’s right wing. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a machine like a jade-green insect, a praying mantis, delicately rushing through the cold air, indistinct, countless green diamonds winking over its body, and red jewels that glittered with multifaceted eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The praying mantis hunched a little farther forward. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z He was a whole head taller than Bobby Gene, but he was scrawny, with long, knobby limbs like a praying mantis. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Later, she would pack up the cookies in her burlap sack, she would dig in her imaginary garden with the worms and the praying mantises and the dog. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Machine guns looked to me like praying mantises. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A monstrous shape resembling a stainless-steel-and-crystal praying mantis comes into view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She looked like a praying mantis, bent over, sitting at her table, rubbing her hands together. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It gave her the posture of a beggar or praying mantis. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The electric thimble moved like a praying mantis on the pillow, touched by her hand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I know about queen ants, and about the female praying mantises eating the males. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But she could not help—as she dug in the dirt, and sang to the worms, and prayed with the mantises—comparing this garden, this field, with her other gardens, with Sean’s garden. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “On the count of three,” Jeff, the taller Med-jack, was saying, his tall frame looking ridiculous bent in half, like a praying mantis. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The praying mantis hovers in place, not moving any closer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One had ears like radar disks and another stared at him with the large eyes of a praying mantis. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But we see with understanding eye only if we have walked in the garden at night and here and there with a flashlight have glimpsed the mantis stealthily creeping upon her prey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Let’s say you want to remember ten animals: elephant, giraffe, cow, duck, bison, echidna,* sheep, praying mantis, ladybug, and tabby cat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I take a deep breath as we approach the entrance ramp of the praying mantis ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I found him in the lower branches of a tree, playing by swinging from side to side, oblivious to the bright green shock of a praying mantis walking across his knuckles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Picture a four-foot-eleven praying mantis suffering from extreme malnutrition, with a long nose and glasses that were last in style when President Truman wore them. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The eggs of the mantis are secure in little cases of thin parchment attached to the branch of a shrub by the mother who lived her life span with the summer that is gone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A foot-long, Technicolor mantis shrimp waved its claws on a coral pinnacle. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The Surrealists were obsessed with the sexual cannibalism of the praying mantis, adopting it as a mascot. Art Review: ?Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration? at MoMA 2012-03-29T22:25:34Z It's then up to Stine and the plucky kids to recapture the monsters, which include an abominable snowman, a werewolf, an army of evil garden gnomes and at least one giant praying mantis. 'Goosebumps' trailer: Jack Black rewrites the book on R.L. Stine stories 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The pair bond over a Proustian remembrance of praying mantises. In ‘The Whispering Land,’ a British naturalist collects travel tales — and animals with tails — in Argentina 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z With his hooded eyes, angular features and praying mantis figure, he can project a slippery, suspicious quality, like a more intellectual Mr. Bean. Peter Capaldi Makes His Debut as Doctor Who 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z At the entrance, a 55-foot-tall praying mantis spews flames and swivels its head as if searching for its next piece of kebab meat. Zappos’s CEO is helping revitalize downtown Las Vegas. He took me on a whirlwind tour. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Yet for the length of the movie he denies his better instincts to get closer to this petite praying mantis. 2010-01-24T20:25:00Z Fonda perches, graceful as a mantis, on a Cannes hotel roof terrace overlooking the ocean. Jane Fonda: ‘Plastic surgery bought me a decade’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z She looks serene and watchful, like the galaxy’s most beautiful praying mantis, her face a collection of right angles. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Instead, we’re off again, battling a giant praying mantis with a chain saw. Everything you think you know about ghosts is wrong 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z You don’t get much fresher than the season’s first canocchie, supernaturally sweet mantis shrimp fresh from the Lagoon, served atop tiny arugula leaves and tomatoes. When in Venice, Eat Like a Venetian 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z A praying mantis climbs a lily stalk, and a mother fox lies curled with her young in a hidden den. Picture Books That Celebrate a Grandparent’s Selfless Love 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z She has a tattoo of a praying mantis on her left shoulder, a South African ground beetle on her left biceps and, below her left shoulder, her first tattoo, a mosquito. Inside the Field Museum's hidden flesh-eating beetle room 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s called a mantis shrimp because it looks like what you’d get if you crossed a shrimp with a praying mantis, though why you would want to do that is a mystery. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: The Shrimp Combo Platter 2011-11-17T22:00:06Z They compare the cannibalistic courtship of the praying mantis to a bad Tinder date, and their disquisition on the male elephant’s hormonal state of “musth” is headlined “Musth-Dos.” How Humans Can Coexist With Other Animals 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Peacocks, swans, fish and turtles are due to arrive any day to add some fauna to a courtyard garden, and an insect wrangler is breeding thousands of praying mantises. 'Marco Polo' brings the court of Kublai Khan to Netflix 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z There is beauty to be found in the transcription of small wonders — in Moss’s case, a praying mantis laying her eggs, a well-made cup of broth, the warmth of a beloved pet at your feet. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z There are traces of Dune mixed with Jedi-like powers and a healthy side of murderous human-sized praying mantises. Five Fantasy Epics That Would Have Made for Better TV Than Game of Thrones 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z A scattering of loose emeralds at one booth were colored the bright sharp green of a praying mantis. At Tiffany, Something New Inside the Blue Box 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Meet mantis shrimp, visit mangrove nurseries and learn about the reef’s origins and cultural history. Miss the sea? These documentaries about the ocean go beneath the surface. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But my Kindle has a cutesy little light that protrudes from the leather cover like some bit of a praying mantis, and which now allows me to read without causing distress to my loved one. Rick Gekoski: In praise of wakefulness 2012-12-14T14:30:22Z Who knew, however, that the roles she was really born to play were animals and bugs: a sinister praying mantis, a voracious bed bug, a kinky dolphin? Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z Most praying mantises found in the United States are Presbyterian. Style Invitational Week 1403: Who was that masked man? 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Fertilisation can still take place without the bloke mantis's head, though. Sex secrets of the animal kingdom exposed 2011-02-05T00:05:27Z In 2002, for his futuristic ballet Nemesis, he teamed up with Jim Henson's Creature workshop to fit his dancers with prosthetic pincers based on the multiple-jointed arms of the praying mantis. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z "I don't want to look like a praying mantis with these things all over my head." Dave Grohl: deaf like me – except, of course, not like me 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Given his reputation for piercing characters on the mandibles of his superior intellect, a praying Franzen doesn’t feel much more sanctified than a praying mantis. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Its prayer is that of a praying mantis, with the woman folding over the man and splaying herself across him as if on the rack. Daniel Ulbricht Leads City Ballet Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z To create his effects, he relies on sharp dialogue set off against shadows, on deft slices of prose: “My eyes were like two cigarette burns” and a woman’s fingers move “like praying mantises.” Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Before exploring the praying mantis, I had called Sarbanes, the current beneficiary of the 3rd District’s design, to see whether he agreed with the criticisms leveled at those who represent gerrymandered districts. A tour of what may be the nation’s most bizarrely gerrymandered district 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z On a brisk Saturday in October, as giddy tracks by Destiny’s Child and Naughty by Nature blared, there were lithe fashion boys tangling on the dance floor and willowy models climbing banquettes like mantises. Up Close: Travis Bass, Impresario of the Night 2012-11-05T22:37:03Z Her fingers reach forward to form tents on the floor, lending her slithering shape the look of a praying mantis. Review: Sylvie Guillem Says Goodbye, Her Way 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The mantises are flipping out, and it would better if they were just flipping. Review: ‘The Mantises Are Flipping W.3,’ a World of Its Own at Danspace Project 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z That’s when the media descended, like a swarm of praying mantises. Perspective | How to make the Internet bug out 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z A praying mantis is adored while a rabbit is reviled. Beyond birds and butterflies, this garden welcomes all critters — even raccoons 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Over this scene, Mr. Shaw painted a giant praying mantis and semitransparent ghosts, including three Ku Klux Klan figures — spectral nightmares of genocide, slavery and other psychopathologies haunting the American dream. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He’s so tall and gangly and angular — like a praying mantis. Irrfan Khan: Mira Nair Remembers Her ‘Namesake’ Star 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z There's, of course, Diana's midnight snack, a very talked-about moment, and Anna's praying mantis scene. Which "V" reigns supreme? 2010-05-18T19:30:00Z An op-ed in Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper, described it as “a dying mantis or a poorly formed pterodactyl.” Columbia Students Protest a Henry Moore Sculpture 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He lost 30 pounds to play the Kid, his high, sharp cheekbones and expansive eyes giving the character the air of a ghostly praying mantis. ‘Castle Rock’ Is a Stephen King Story That Isn’t Really a Stephen King Story 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “Of the multiplicity of forms, I know nothing. Except that, apparently, anything goes. This holds for forms of behavior as well as design — the mantis munching her mate, the frog wintering in mud.” The "missing law" of nature was here all along 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z On the other hand, gene expression in the mantis brains did not change, and in fact could not be distinguished from that found in uninfected mantises. Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z They live and reproduce in water, but their young only develop inside the bodies of other animals—usually terrestrial insects such as praying mantises. Parasitic worms may control minds of insects with ‘borrowed’ genes 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The teenager had been begging her parents for more pets to go with the family's dog, three cats, two red-footed tortoises and a mantis. Schoolgirl hatches chicks from supermarket eggs 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Birds, such as blue jays, cardinals, and chickens; as well as arthropods, such as praying mantises, spiders, yellowjackets, and ants, are the most common predators. Inside the race to stop lanternflies—before they get to a town near you 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z There are few lanternfly predators other than praying mantises, which can’t keep the invasive insects in check if the population gets too big. Fairfax launches plan to combat invasive spotted lanternfly in parks 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The researchers next searched a protein database to explore the origins of the genes that Chordodes horsehair worms use to manipulate mantises. Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The authors admit it’s also possible the sequences result from the mantis’ tissues contaminating the worm samples. Parasitic worms may control minds of insects with ‘borrowed’ genes 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z It thrived and became a nesting site for hummingbirds and praying mantises. Op-Ed: His cat, his house, his neighborhood gone 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z By comparing bar lengths in 36 species with known relationships on the mantis shrimp family tree, they showed the shortest bar often changed as a new species evolved. This biologist discovered that lizards and other organisms can influence their own evolution 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “If people studied mantis shrimps the way they study octopuses, they would be really blown away at how smart they are,” Dr. Huffard said. Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Further analysis supported the idea that the molecular mimicry seen in the Chordodes horsehair worms is likely the result of horizontal gene transfer from mantises. Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Mishina’s team is working to sequence the whole genomes of both the worms and mantises. Parasitic worms may control minds of insects with ‘borrowed’ genes 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z So do lizards, ladybugs, praying mantises, bees and caterpillars. California Considers Extending Last Call to 4 A.M. 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Other wildlife has returned, including lizards, ladybugs, praying mantises, bees and caterpillars. Tearing out her lawn was like therapy after a year of illness and grief 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Yong moves beyond the known unknowns — just how does a mantis shrimp, with its complex eyes, see? Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ expands our understanding of the web of life 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z In particular, over 1,400 Chordodes horsehair worm genes were found to match those in mantises, but were absent or very different from species of horsehair worms that do not use mantis hosts. Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z He was pulling rocks from the ocean to find mantis shrimp hiding in cracks. The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After Laying Its Eggs 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z The team’s analysis of Callichimaera’s eyes suggests that it had unusually sharp vision for a crab — closer to efficient, cleareyed predators like dragonflies and mantis shrimps. This Ancient Crab Had Unusually Huge Eyes 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Like the praying mantis who's male through the whole thing, and then has this egg sac, but Mom and I still call it "he." "I am more than my procreative capacity": The public and private grief of infertility 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z I looked down and saw a praying mantis, full grown and perhaps four inches long. ‘Sitting Across From Me Was a Man Eating Sardines From a Can’ 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Horsehair worms are born in water and use aquatic insects like mayflies to hitchhike to dry land, where they sit tight until they are eaten by terrestrial insects such as crickets or mantises. Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z “I made him a black praying mantis,” she says. How the 'Dune' team brought the villainous Harkonnen to life 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The brightest student in class responded within seconds with an image of the mantis shrimp, which possesses infrared vision. How to Search for Life as We Don't Know It 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Efforts by Taiwan’s government to stave off what China refers to as inevitable unification are like “a mantis trying to stop a chariot,” Wu said. China says US increasing military activity directed at it 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z As the mantis walked slowly and sweetly over my hands, onto the book and then back onto my wrist and arm, I stood up slowly. ‘Sitting Across From Me Was a Man Eating Sardines From a Can’ 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes his coffee slurps and deep sighs turn me into a praying mantis lady, and my midnight chatter is clearly the stuff of man-mares. We wanted to know how couples are faring under COVID-19. These are their love tales 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z She will bring in ladybugs, which eat aphids, or praying mantises to help deal with pests. Royalty visits Greenwood’s gardens as monarchs migrate 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The Congo green mantis opens its mouth, shows its colorful forelegs and spreads its wings. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z He developed a martial-arts style modeled after the movements of the praying mantis and dance traditions from West African styles and the Lindy Hop. A Jazz Drummer’s Fight to Keep His Own Heart Beating 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z “This guy really needs to get to some green grass and plants,” I said, holding the mantis up for the driver to see. ‘Sitting Across From Me Was a Man Eating Sardines From a Can’ 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z For his experiment, Mr. Rossoni placed one Madagascan marbled mantis at a time on a raised platform underneath a bright light. Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z I remember one time there was an article where someone wrote horrible things about me, comparing me to a praying mantis. Playboy model Joy Corrigan recalls father’s ‘funny’ reaction to her first appearance: ‘My dad wasn’t happy’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The devil’s flower mantis moves its forelegs back and forth and clicks, like a haunted clock. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Want to see a praying mantis crack open a murder hornet’s head and gnaw its brain out? Praying mantis eats murder hornet in frightening video 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z I carried the mantis, still wandering over my hands and my book, to the edge of the plantings. ‘Sitting Across From Me Was a Man Eating Sardines From a Can’ 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z In the first, the approach phase, a mantis extends its arms up and outward. Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He looked like a praying mantis but stung like a murder hornet. Opinion | My former newspaper is struggling — and is more important than ever 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z They then mapped these scores onto a mantis evolutionary tree, incorporating information about each type’s size and shape. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But the 57-second video shows a larger praying mantis making a quick meal out of the bug. Praying mantis eats murder hornet in frightening video 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The subsequent redistricting created its own assortment of oddly shaped maps: a “snake” in North Carolina, an “upside down elephant” in Texas, a “praying mantis” in Maryland. Review: In ‘Slay the Dragon,’ a gerrymandering investigation 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Most of that modulation occurred in the approach phase — when presented with a slower target, the mantises would raise their limbs more slowly or pause in the middle, in a zombielike pose. Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It was inspired by research in which praying mantises in 3-D glasses helped answer a similar question. Yes, This Cuttlefish Is Wearing 3-D Glasses 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z If all the nearby mantises struck the same weird pose, the local mantis-eaters might become familiar with it and stop being thrown off. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The praying mantis is a powerful predator in its own right -- there are dozens of videos on YouTube and elsewhere online showing them capturing and consuming insects, lizards, birds and small mammals. Praying mantis eats murder hornet in frightening video 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z ‘You are the female praying mantis, devouring her mate.’ ‘Mouthful by mouthful’: the 2019 Bad sex award in quotes 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z A praying mantis watches intently as a fly bobs by. Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Simon likened Liza Minnelli’s face to that of a beagle, called Kathleen Turner “a braying mantis” and wrote that Barbra Streisand’s nose “zigzags across our horizon like a bolt of fleshy lightning.” John Simon, theater and film critic with an artful and vicious pen, dies at 94 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Intriguingly, these displays began evolving about 60 million years ago — soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs spurred modern birds, a key mantis predator, to diversify, Dr. Umbers said. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “I have the tenacity of a praying mantis,” she said, “with a little black Irish witch involved.” Judy Garland's life was run by men. These newly unearthed recordings reveal how 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “I will say — it’s pretty funny — when we were moving the tree we did discover there actually was a praying mantis in it. So, technically, we were bugged.” Perspective | The case of the CIA’s bonsai, being the true story of a big gift of a little tree 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z She is known for work on other quick microscopic movements, like the jaws of the trap jaw ant or the hammer of the mantis shrimp. Legless, Leaping Larvae 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Despite possessing a tiny brain, the praying mantis is able to use depth perception to calculate how far away its prey is. Blackbirds, brains and bleached anemones — July’s best science images 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z From a distance, the dead leaf praying mantis resembles its namesake: brown, crispy and still. How a Praying Mantis Says ‘Boo!’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z He has organized six expeditions to the Amazon, Paraná and nature reserves in Rio de Janeiro in the hope of adding more crickets, grasshoppers, mantises and stick insects to the recovering collection. The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z So Dougherty and his team looked to other insects including praying mantises and wasps for inspiration. How ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ updated four iconic kaiju characters 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, said Tuesday that trying to stop China’s development and rise is like “a praying mantis trying to stop a car with its arms.” China’s Huawei says it has long prepared for a U.S. assault 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Route 84, beyond the pump jacks sticking up like praying mantises, past the wind turbines, past where the ground seems to redden and the towns have names like Roscoe, Slaton and Post? With Texas Tech in the Final Four, Lubbock wakes up a basketball town 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The team then tried to feed the viceroys to lab-reared mantises, which were repulsed by the northern variety. Tasty butterflies turn sour without toxic wingmen 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z But Kreuze, who is a veterinarian, captured the praying mantises using a box and an envelope, and she’s feeding them fruit flies. Christmas tree insect stowaways find kind-hearted hostess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z One day in September, Harris told me that a fellow inmate found a praying mantis in the yard. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Anyone who has thrilled to the shrilling of cicadas or marvelled at the bizarre behaviour of praying mantises will be entranced by this homage to the class Insecta. Big oil in the dock, the influenza trail, and insects as icons: Books in brief 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Today, mantises seem to use their ears exclusively as bat detectors. Awesome Ears: The Weird World of Insect Hearing 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Some trees are bent like praying mantises, and the few power poles still standing lean at precarious angles, their wires doing loop-the-loops around outstretched limbs. ‘We’re back to frontier days’: Michael’s aftermath in Florida 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Kreuze says she learned some people, including organic garners, really like praying mantises, which eat other bugs, so she hopes to find them a new home. Christmas tree insect stowaways find kind-hearted hostess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The inmate returned the praying mantis to the ground. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s long been known that praying mantises are formidable predators. Ambitious Praying Mantis Discovers Sashimi 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z To his mind, this suggests that their ears first evolved not for singing but, much like mantises, for self-preservation. Awesome Ears: The Weird World of Insect Hearing 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Security cameras around the pavilion recorded several people creeping out of the museum last week with plastic containers holding giant African mantises, bumblebee millipedes, warty glowspot roaches, tarantulas, dwarf and tiger hissers, and leopard geckos. $40,000 Insect and Lizard Theft Was an Inside Job, Police Say 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z That’s when the mantis struck forth, grasping the cricket by one of its long jumping legs. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Patek noted that for mantis shrimp, the problem of avoiding self-destruction is severe. Too Small for Big Muscles, Tiny Animals Use Springs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It seems there’s little of comparable size that a praying mantis won’t attempt to eat. Ambitious Praying Mantis Discovers Sashimi 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The drone arrives overhead with a roar, hovers for a moment, then lowers itself towards the green circle like a mantis, three sets of propellers churning the air into whorls of straw and dust. The world’s first commercial drone-delivery service is operating in China 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z That does not mean mantis shrimps see psychedelic dolphins frolicking through rainbow oceans. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Next, Skelhorn presented each cricket to one of 36 ghost mantises, measuring how long it took for the mantis to seize the cricket, and how many attempts preceded a successful catch. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Recently, a paper in Science described and quantified the sometimes-explosive releases of power displayed by fleas, ants, mantis shrimp and other tiny creatures when they leap or strike with their claws or jaws. Too Small for Big Muscles, Tiny Animals Use Springs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But now it seems the mighty mantis has conquered yet another frontier. Ambitious Praying Mantis Discovers Sashimi 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The unique qualities of praying mantises 3-D vision may offer a path for better artificial vision. Miniature glasses on praying mantises helps in study of robot vision 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In fact mantis shrimp struggle to tell the difference between color shades that human eyes easily discern. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The first group of crickets was placed in a tank with dead leaves—from plants found in the same geographic area as the mantises—and allowed to interact with them. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Patek noted that for mantis shrimp, the problem of avoiding self-destruction is severe. Too Small for Big Muscles, Tiny Animals Use Springs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In a rooftop garden in Karnataka, India on the March 7, 2017, a male praying mantis sat perched on a lily pad, studying the water below. Ambitious Praying Mantis Discovers Sashimi 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z If you thought praying mantises already look pretty cool, wait till you see them in these stunning shades. Miniature glasses on praying mantises helps in study of robot vision 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But the mantis shrimp color vision is unique. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z As the cricket struggled against the mantis’ clutch, the predator started to feed. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Praying mantises do not perceive the world as you and I do. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z So scientists developed what they call a “3D insect cinema” and the bug versions of 3D glasses to test mantis vision. Why this praying mantis is wearing tiny 3D glasses 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “So that told us something fairly profound. That was telling us praying mantises do not use correlation for their stereovision — at least not the correlation of image contrast. They’re doing something really different.” Miniature glasses on praying mantises helps in study of robot vision 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The new research homed in on the jiggly movement of the mantis eye. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z To find out, Skelhorn manipulated the experience of house crickets with dead leaves, before putting the animals in tanks with dead-leaf-resembling Ghost mantises. How Prey Animals' Prior Experiences Make Them Gullible to Masquerading Predators 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Uncovering the particulars of mantis stereo vision required a lot of patience and a little beeswax. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z But getting the mantises to actually wear the glasses was a bit of a challenge. Why this praying mantis is wearing tiny 3D glasses 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Again, where the humans failed to perceive when the object was “close,” the mantises succeeded. Miniature glasses on praying mantises helps in study of robot vision 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z As the world appeared to do aileron rolls around the mantis shrimp, the researchers suspected the shrimp would likewise spin their eyes to maintain a stable view. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Praying mantises are the only invertebrates known to see in 3D. World’s tiniest 3D glasses reveal how praying mantises see the world 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The mantises then were placed in front of a screen — an insect cinema, the researchers called it. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The team discovered that for mantises, the background details didn’t seem to matter. Why this praying mantis is wearing tiny 3D glasses 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z He created from oak and rosewood a music stand that had the bearing of a praying mantis and “angel chairs” that appeared to have wings. Wendell Castle, whose art was furniture and furniture was art, dies at 85 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A 6-inch peacock mantis shrimp packs a 50 mph punch, and it's for that reason biologist Ilse Daly, at the University of Bristol in Britain, wears thick gardening gloves when handling the little pugilists. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z It may not be an exact doppelgänger for fire-breathing Drogon or Smaug, but the Brazilian dragon mantis is quite eye-catching indeed—that is, if you manage to spot the insect at all. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet mantises seem to care most about where the image is changing, not about how to match the details. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z So it’s more efficient for a small mantis brain to ignore confusing background information and focus on what’s important: where its next meal is going. Why this praying mantis is wearing tiny 3D glasses 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Baby bugs without a pupal stage, like leaf hoppers and praying mantises are prettily called nymphs, also a name for mythical spirits in nature. Why Do We Call Baby Deer Fawns? 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Peacock mantis shrimp eyes perch on the end of stalks. This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z And, they’re known for being superbly camouflaged; just try and find an orchid mantis perched among several flowers. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It is difficult to imagine what the world looks like to praying mantises. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Scientists have developed a healthy respect for praying mantises, acrobatic hunters with 3-D vision and voracious appetites. N.F.L., Angela Merkel, Iraqi Kurdistan: Your Monday Briefing 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Praying mantises prey on small birds more often than realized — especially large species like the Chinese mantis. North Korea, Angela Merkel, N.F.L.: Your Monday Briefing 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Large species like the Chinese mantis, which grows to four inches in length, were the most avid avivores, and females were responsible for virtually all the bird-killing observed worldwide. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “So far, this is unique to this genus of mantises and the video shows this well,” Svenson says. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Somehow, mantis vision does not require a sophisticated brain. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z In his book, he details how “a diverse array of species – from beetles to birds to bears to mantis shrimp” all share strikingly similar “dueling” behaviors. Why men fight – and how modern masculinity adds a twist to it 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z A praying mantis perched on a cup atop a railing in the Yankees dugout during the middle innings. Yanks top Rays 5-1 as Frazier homers in series moved to Mets 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Sometimes the mantises would tuck in through the bird’s breastbone, but more often they went for the head, Dr. Remsen said. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Exquisitely camouflaged both in shape and behavior, the dragon mantis, with its leafy-looking appendages and slightly drunken swagger, resembles a swaying twig. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The scientist and his colleagues are working to create a computer algorithm that replicates mantis sight. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “The first week, when we introduced the idea of consensus decision-making and rating, we spent 3 and a half hours deciding the mascot of the school,” he said, noting they settled on the mantis shrimp. Missouri school to use storefront as facility another year 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Once the bird is subdued, the mantis slowly nibbles along the neckline and keeps at it for hours until most of the flesh is gone. Praying Mantis Devours Hummingbird in Shocking Photo 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The bigger the floral pollinators, the bulkier grew their predatory mantises, the better to catch, control and consume even well-armed bumblebees and wasps. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z In December 2017, Lanna and his Project Mantis colleagues went into the Atlantic rain forest to find and study new, rare, or historically undocumented mantises. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z If they are successful, Nityananda envisions lightweight robots that might see the world more like mantises and less like us. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The Colombian core even contained a fossilized shark’s tooth and a mantis shrimp, both ocean dwellers. Was the Amazon once an ocean? 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Nibbling on one hummingbird clearly wasn’t enough for the ravenous mantis. Praying Mantis Devours Hummingbird in Shocking Photo 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Other mantises resemble gnarled twigs, scraps of tree bark or decomposing leaves, blending in beautifully with forest underbrush, tree trunk or canopy, a cryptic approach to fool would-be prey and their own predators alike. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z One night, while on the prowl for these carnivores, Lanna and his colleagues found not one—but two!—male dragon mantises. Dragon Mantis Captured in Extremely Rare Video 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But a tiny robot with depth perception might be able to scurry through disaster area rubble or other confounding spaces — essentially more mantis view than street view. Researchers who made praying mantises wear glasses discover a new type of vision 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “The bird was feeding praying mantises to its babies.” Native plants attract birds to your own backyard 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Hummingbirds are likely the only birds that a mantis would be able to catch: “Hummingbirds are tiny, five or six grams—less than a nickel,” McGowan says, adding that mantises are about the same size. Praying Mantis Devours Hummingbird in Shocking Photo 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “It gave me new respect for mantises,” he added. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Here Mr. Swanson technically portrays a praying mantis at the top, yet shows it doing ballet below. They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Hayden loves to draw “weird creatures” in his spare time - a recent creation is a half praying mantis and half rat - and he will receive free art supplies for winning the competition. Parkston student gets national honor for flag design 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z He watched entranced for the next half hour as the parents delivered 11 praying mantises to their four offspring. Native plants attract birds to your own backyard 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z The mantis traveled on Royals charter flights and was in the clubhouse. Burns keeper of goldfish, mantis mascots 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The mantis appetite likewise turns out to leap and bound, and with scant regard for food-chain decorum. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Until relatively recently, the party line among scientists was that cannibalism occurred in only a few species in the wild, like black widow spiders and praying mantises. In Many Species, a Family Dinner Means Something Else 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z In the exciting, hothouse atmosphere of a foreign enclave, Lau broke away from the conservative attitudes surrounding martial arts and began teaching a form of praying mantis style to women. Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Museum visitors who encounter the occasional praying mantis display are often taken aback. Secrets of the Orchid Mantis 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z So I continued on amid wasps and butterflies, a praying mantis or two, and tangles of leaves, flowers and branches. I nearly died from an insect sting. The fear it left was worse than the wound | Beverly Willett 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z But praying mantises rise above the flattened scuttling posture that makes cockroaches look so…verminy. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Some saw her as a sort of praying mantis, seducing and devouring her victims, or as a despot who delighted in destroying her enemies. The shocking murder of Spain’s most flamboyant politician | Giles Tremlett 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z When not attending to his students, Li — a former police officer — talked about the common origin of the various praying mantis styles. Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z In the orchid mantises, the females, a rich creamy white with brown patches and flower-petal-mimicking lobes on their legs, are up to four inches long, much bigger than the males. Secrets of the Orchid Mantis 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Since he is experienced and comfortable working with machinery, he was hired to operate a beet piler — a large, elongated yellow machine reminiscent of a praying mantis. Migrant Workers in Recreational Vehicles 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When the researchers glued the abdomen to prevent it from bending, “the mantis would crash headfirst into its target,” Dr. Burrows said. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z “The bullpen’s slightly more important than the mantis,” Hosmer said, smiling. Left for Dead, Royals Revive on a Wing and a Praying Insect 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “One day there was a monk that noticed a fight between a mantis and a bird. The mantis won and he was wondering how and why,” he tells TIME. Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Dr. Svenson said people are intrigued by mantises because they react differently from other insects. Secrets of the Orchid Mantis 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z And when the bug died in Minnesota - the Royals lost that day, by the way - they were unsurprised when another mantis flew in during a game in Detroit. World Series champion Royals rallying into playoff race 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z And forget about jumping its batteries: the bird was in the grip of a three-inch-long green praying mantis. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z On Aug. 6, with the Royals puttering along at 51-58, a praying mantis showed up in the home dugout at Kauffman Stadium. Left for Dead, Royals Revive on a Wing and a Praying Insect 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “Later on he caught a mantis and was just observing the way that they fight, the way they interact and then slowly developed a style based on its movements.” Preserving Hong Kong's Vanishing Martial Arts 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z "The first mantis crawled up on my hat and just kind of camped out there for a while," Burns said. Royals' secret behind their surge? It's a Rally Mantis 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Walking across the blackened earth, Newsome saw dead grasshoppers, praying mantises, beetles and crickets, the foundation of the food chain for birds and mammals on the reserve. Range 12 Fire damaged an important natural and cultural area 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Praying mantises are the only insects able to swivel their heads and stare at you. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The mantis died a week later in Minnesota, and the Royals lost that day. Left for Dead, Royals Revive on a Wing and a Praying Insect 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z And the immersive experience should allow users to see through the eyes of the mantis shrimp, "experiencing how they communicate with each other using flashes of polarised light". Colours in nature - and how we see them - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z But this week brought an entirely new frontier in Ginsburgiana: An entire praying mantis species. Praying mantis named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z "This research establishes the validity of using female specimens in the classification of praying mantises," said Sydney Brannoch, the lead author of the study. Praying mantis species named after US Supreme Court Justice - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But just as there are carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap, mantises prey on hummingbirds and other small-to-middling birds more often than most people realize. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z I met Dag Reckhorn, Faraday Future's vice president for global marketing, at a bar inside Container Park, an open-air shopping area with a sprawling treehouse and a giant, mechanical praying mantis that breathes fire. Faraday Future says its electric car could be more powerful than Tesla's 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z For weeks he picked a few up and placed them in a glass vial with plans to feed them to his pet praying mantis. Tracking a Parasite That Turns Bees Into Zombies 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The scientists played "movies," which were actually a series of moving discs that resembled movements of mantis prey. These Praying Mantises Wear Tiny 3-D Glasses—For Science In a paper published in Scientific Reports, an open access journal from Nature, the scientists explain that they initially tried testing the mantises' vision using circularly polarized 3D glasses like you get in the cinema. Scientists gave praying mantises tiny 3D glasses to test their depth perception 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Some mantises in North America now seem to view hummingbird feeders as happy hunting grounds. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Small insects and mantis shrimp put larger animals to shame. No Disguising the Power of a Smaller Chameleon’s Tongue 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z There's something quite charming about seeing the kung fu mantis take on a jumping spider. Five science videos to be thankful for 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In experiments, the mantises watched a series of moving discs that looked a lot like how their prey moves. These Praying Mantises Wear Tiny 3-D Glasses—For Science But this method failed, because the mantises were too close to the screen for the 3D effect to work, notes Popular Mechanics. Scientists gave praying mantises tiny 3D glasses to test their depth perception 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Seeing that the bird was already dead, its skull pierced, Ms. Okamoto and the boy settled down and watched the mantis eat its fill of bird brain. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The uniformly orange ones are completely camouflaged to mantis eyes, according to a 2014 study. Shades of Prey: Can Color-blind Predators See Warning Colors? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The praying mantis hunts Stine and the kids until they find refuge in a supermarket, where the werewolf terrorizes them until they escape to a cemetery, where the zombies appear. The chase is on, as ‘Goosebumps’ turns the page to unleash CGI monsters 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z And don’t forget all of the insects and arachnids- spiders and moths and mantises and honeybees -that buzz, crawl, scurry and flit across Ohio State. Ohio State faculty seek to educate about animals on campus 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The mantises were then fitted with their new 3D specs, which were stuck on with a combination of beeswax and pine resin. Scientists gave praying mantises tiny 3D glasses to test their depth perception 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The orchid mantises of Asia, for example, generally avoid lingering around the flowers they imitate, and instead seek out patches of green vegetation. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night, they huddled together on the sidewalk and watched a praying mantis crawl on the fence above their bed. Life on the Streets 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In the family-friendly “Goosebumps,” you get both — along with a giant, angry praying mantis, an army of malevolent garden gnomes, zombies, a levitating poodle, a werewolf and an abominable snowman. The chase is on, as ‘Goosebumps’ turns the page to unleash CGI monsters 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Alyssa Anderson, an assistant professor of biology at Northern State University, says mantises are not native to this area, and how they got to Aberdeen remains a mystery. 2 praying mantises show up in Aberdeen 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z However in mantis shrimp, the pigments play another role: They serve as powerful filters that contribute to the crustacean's incredibly sharp and complex vision. How Do Some Animals Make Their Own Sunscreen? 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z In experiments that traded charisma for cute, the researchers outfitted praying mantises with tiny homemade 3-D glasses: filters that effectively separated the two images a mantis would see when it looked at a screen. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z One of the key actions performed by animals from mantises to kangaroos is jumping. Here's How 3D Printing Helps Robots Tackle Their Greatest Obstacle 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The experiments revealed that the mantises were able to "adjust their their rotation appropriately" depending on where they need to land. Why insects are marvels of engineering - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Anderson says mantises are a beneficial insect that help control some of the pest insects. 2 praying mantises show up in Aberdeen 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z It might be a featherweight, but this tiny mantis shrimp packs a powerful punch. How Do Some Animals Make Their Own Sunscreen? 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z A mantis will ignore a glowing box on a flat screen when viewing it without the benefit of 3-D glasses, the researchers found. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z A search revealed that praying mantis eggs were available online, “but they don’t hatch until spring” — too late for the announcement, Mr. Restall said. Hartford Yard Goats? The Name Isn’t a Hit Yet 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The notoriously violent female praying mantis, who makes a meal of her partner, also makes an appearance — “Talk about a boy losing his head over a girl.” Soon enough, women will run the world — and it will be a better place 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z And they bought praying mantises, which were fruitful and multiplied in his lab. A Praying Mantis’s Spin on Body Control 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Without the full ability to adjust their rotation, the insects couldn’t stay in control, resulting in a mantis face plant, they report online today in Current Biology. Video: Mantises leap with carefully controlled spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “So either our visual cortex is doing incredibly impressive things I don’t know about yet, or we could get rid of most of it and replace it with a praying mantis brain.” Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z With a push from their legs, the mantises' bodies launch into the air, spinning in controlled fashion. How Praying Mantises Could Help Build Better Robots 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Burrows and Sutton, from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol respectively, recorded 58 young mantises jumping towards a thin black rod. Praying mantis looks long before it leaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A well-fed female mantis is irresistible to a male. Insect hunger games: Male mantises deceived by starving females 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z These jumps would send most insects into a wild spin, but for the young mantises, it’s a highly controlled maneuver that lines them up precisely on target. Video: Mantises leap with carefully controlled spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Which, if it belonged to a female mantis, would surely cry, Must eat. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z As the mantises sail through the air, the spin is transferred from one body segment to the next, keeping the body as a whole level and right on target. How Praying Mantises Could Help Build Better Robots 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z After pushing into the air with their legs, the mantises' bodies launched into the air, spinning in controlled fashion. Praying mantis looks long before it leaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z At several places, 50-foot-tall "light masts" lean like praying mantises over the pathway. After 2 years of construction, Maggie Daley Park opens 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Thanks to conservation of angular momentum, this counters the spin imparted by the jump just enough to allow the mantis to safely hit its target. Video: Mantises leap with carefully controlled spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Praying mantises “are unusually charismatic,” said William D. Brown, who studies them at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The mantises arrive at their target at just the right orientation to land stably. How Praying Mantises Could Help Build Better Robots 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As the mantises sailed through the air, the spin was transferred from one body segment to the next, keeping the body as a whole level and directly on target. Praying mantis looks long before it leaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The praying mantis body shape also begins to grow on you. Ping Pong Playing Robot To Seek Factory Job 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z By analyzing slow-motion video of hundreds of mantis jumps, like the one shown above, researchers discovered that in midair, mantises rotate their legs and abdomens. Video: Mantises leap with carefully controlled spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Some mantises evolved to look like showy blossoms, a cancan of deadly come-ons. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z No wonder Thiel and Schmidt can't kiss and make up: "The Secret Language" labels their astrological relationship as "take no prisoners," symbolized by a disgruntled praying mantis. The zodiac is the key to unlocking tech's greatest feuds 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z According to Burrows, the mantises' jumps are precise, landing on target every time. Praying mantis looks long before it leaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Seeking religious inspiration in his coaches as well as praying mantis hair, the news that Hoddle might be taking Tony Pulis’ job at Crystal Palace is unlikely to be well received. Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to land Radamel Falcao from Monaco? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Another question they would like to answer is whether insects that consume fruit flies, such as the praying mantis, might also be affected by the sugar alcohol after consuming Truvia-fed flies. Scientists discover that popular artificial sweetener also kills fruit flies 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Startled by the clicking shutter, the mantis dropped its partially decapitated meal, crawled under the feeder — and began menacing two hummingbirds on the other side. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Meander past luminescent flowers, gigantic glowing mushrooms and a praying mantis towering more than 12 feet tall. Brightening the Night With a Spring Palette 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Happily, we now seem to be waking up to the reality that we are dealing not with a revanchist Russia, but with a coldly calculating one – a Russia that is neither patsy nor praying mantis. The unfolding Ukraine crisis signals a new world order 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The praying mantises are shown images on a computer screen when they are wearing the glasses. 3D glasses on praying mantises 2014-04-25T10:20:19Z In the end, the mantis shrimp’s design reigned supreme, with less denting and greater residual strength after impact. Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials 2014-04-26T22:21:17Z “I always thought of mantises as wonderful things to have in your garden to get rid of bugs, but it turns out they sometimes go for larger prey, too.” Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The preying mantises are shown images on a computer screen when they are wearing the glasses. 3D glasses on preying mantises 2014-04-25T10:20:19Z I'm taking a praying mantis and giving it a body that's much bigger than its own and the ability to control that body. How Long until We Have the Superhuman Exoskeletons from Elysium ? 2013-08-07T14:45:03.460Z Lacan compared it to being confronted with a giant praying mantis while wearing a mask – a mask the wearer can't see. Heed the new age of anxiety rather than bemoaning it 2013-07-29T07:00:05Z Kisailus and his colleagues created a carbon-fiber version of the peacock mantis shrimp’s helicoid, using epoxy as fill-in, and put it to the test against two other composites made from the same basic components. Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials 2014-04-26T22:21:17Z When the postprandial mantis crept back up the feeder, Ms. Okamoto gently pushed it off with a stick. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z As well as spiders, there's a praying mantis and emperor scorpion! Giant robot bugs join Chester Zoo 2013-07-19T06:00:45Z I'm interested in the praying mantis because it has very complex walking behavior and I want to see if it can transfer that to a robot. How Long until We Have the Superhuman Exoskeletons from Elysium ? 2013-08-07T14:45:03.460Z Stupid non-thinking comment mantis...... mantisdragon91 @ @ @ And when you have a party that guts the staffing levels of Federal agencies and a State that discourages them from doing their job what do you think happens? Rick Perry Raids Blue States for Jobs with Renewed Vigor 2013-06-17T20:35:29Z A peacock mantis shrimp looks like the praying mantis’s outlandish underwater cousin, with its loud rainbow shell and big, googly eyes. Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials 2014-04-26T22:21:17Z Researchers emphasize that bird predation by mantises remains rare and is insignificant compared to the carnage linked to, say, free-roaming cats. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Crickets, praying mantises and lacewings are all sensitive to the ultrasonic cries of bats, but are usually tested on frequencies below 150 kilohertz. Moth Smashes Ultrasound Hearing Records 2013-05-10T14:15:04.053Z I mean, obviously I'll still raise all my children responsibly for the mantis race ...” Peace 2013-02-13T18:21:02.630Z Near the ground are thousands of kinds of insects, praying mantises, ants and spiders … In such hot, damp weather mosquitoes live luxuriantly. LIFE at Guadalcanal: Photos From the Pacific 2013-02-09T14:25:00Z The ballistic mechanism of the clubbing appendages is unique to certain kinds of mantis shrimp and is not found in other crustaceans. Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials 2014-04-26T22:21:17Z Some mantises chase down their prey, but many are consummate ambush artists, waiting with Zen stillness in the grass or among flowers for the right moment to strike. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The practice is common in spiders and other arthropods, including praying mantises and crickets. Sexual Cannibalism Is a Case of 'He Said, She Said' 2013-01-15T22:20:00Z Durant looks like something from a Pixar movie — a humanoid praying mantis. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Fairy-Tale Rise 2012-11-08T22:22:55Z An ex-wife of one of her conquests had even described her as a “praying mantis with a terminator smile”. Carla To Valerie: Get Married! 2012-10-26T08:45:00Z David Kisailus, who teaches at the University of California at Riverside, is studying the mantis shrimp's club appendage to develop tougher and stronger materials. Peacock mantis shrimp’s swift, deadly punch inspires superstrong composite materials 2014-04-26T22:21:17Z Whether a male mantis actively sacrifices himself for the sake of his progeny or simply fails to dart away from the female in time remains a topic of active research. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z See live bugs such as a praying mantis, a giant tiger centipede, an emperor scorpion, a Chilean rosehair tarantula, an American millipede, beetles and lots of Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Something to take your parents to ... 2012-03-09T16:34:44Z Sunday’s Nats game was briefly delayed by a praying mantis in the outfield. Nats game delayed by praying mantis 2012-08-20T20:53:00Z Olympic medallists such as Cassius Clay and Amir Khan would have had a fight on their hands against a peacock mantis shrimp. Human vs ant: Who is stronger? 2012-08-03T00:48:57Z We often find brittle stars, polychaete and fire worms, various tiny crustaceans, mantis shrimp and even the occasional octopus. Scientist at Work Blog: Watchful Shrimp, Defending Their Territory 2012-07-20T19:21:28Z To deconstruct the movements, the researchers took high-speed videos of jumping mantises. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Cranes cluster like praying mantises on every horizon, and the shudder of construction work provides a constant soundtrack. Ancient Village Rises in Shanghai 2012-06-29T14:40:07Z A Colorful Crustacean With a Knockout Punch The colorful Indo-Pacific creature known as the peacock mantis shrimp is not a true shrimp but its own species of crustacean. Observatory: Peacock Mantis Shrimp Has a Knockout Punch 2012-06-11T18:05:52Z Complicated architecture enables the peacock mantis shrimp to hit fast and hard without severely damaging itself. Mantis Shrimp Smash! 2012-06-07T19:24:46Z Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called the peacock mantis shrimp. Hulk Take Break, Shrimp Smash! 2012-06-07T18:15:00.267Z The smallest mantises flit around in the leaf litter of Australia and are “no bigger than your pinkie nail,” Dr. Svenson said. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z But I’m not going to be treated like a mantis.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z That mantis perfectly well knew his danger, but was as cool as a cucumber, keeping quite quiet and lifting his legs out of the way of the blind enemies around him. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Kisailus and colleagues are already developing materials that mimic the structure of the mantis shrimp's club, and preliminary tests show the materials are bulletproof, he says. Mantis Shrimp Smash! 2012-06-07T19:24:46Z Why, I never hurt so much as a buzzing mantis when it tumbled on my head, as the vexatious insects will! The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Yet the stick-mimicking mantises of Africa can be nearly as long as your forearm. Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Courtesy of Christopher Quock A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. "Zombie" Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees 2012-01-04T17:15:01.023Z Insects are commonly observed using their crushed limbs with undiminished force when walking, for example, and a locust will reportedly carry on with a meal while it is being eaten by a mantis. Bees Appear to Experience Moods 2011-12-26T14:15:06.060Z The peacock mantis shrimp packs a powerful punch. Mantis Shrimp Smash! 2012-06-07T19:24:46Z It is a land of insects, from the singular mantis and merry grasshoppers of many hues, to the scorpion, and centipedes of enormous size. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z And before that a mantis called upon me. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z At the time Ms. Millar was standing at her office window and noticed a large praying mantis outside on the window sill. Chicago News Cooperative: 10 Years of Hope, Trying to Save Abandoned Newborns 2011-09-30T01:44:12Z In the Peking Hotel, the chef sculpted a praying mantis from a green pepper. Ann Beattie: Mrs. Nixon joins the final photograph. 2011-09-12T04:00:00Z Though mantis shrimp are relatively common, a lot about them isn't. Mantis Shrimp Smash! 2012-06-07T19:24:46Z The last act of their aggression was to devour a very fine specimen of praying mantis I had confined in a quinine bottle. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z And the mantis suddenly sat up and appeared to engage in prayer. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z A praying mantis is a sign of good luck. Chicago News Cooperative: 10 Years of Hope, Trying to Save Abandoned Newborns 2011-09-30T01:44:12Z A heap of crawlers lay dead on the desk, and the bunk curtain was smothered with grotesque winged shapes, flies, cicadas, mantis, phasmas, moths, beetles, and mosquitoes.” The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Dr. Bleek identifies his name with that of the mantis insect. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Although remarkable acoustic signals are made by a range of invertebrates, including the miniature cricket and preying mantis, and by large mammals, none compare to M. scholtzi once body size is taken into account. Water insect makes record noise with penis 2011-06-30T00:51:39Z I have no time to be bored," said Annette, "even if there is no mantis and no lizard. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Some researchers believe the mantis shrimp's eyes are better over the entire visual spectrum than any man-made waveplates. Mantis Shrimp Eye Could Improve HD CDs, DVDs 2011-06-27T15:22:00Z This mantis is an entertaining freak, and can easily keep an audience watching it for an hour, if the day is dull. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Dr. Bleek knew of no prayer to the mantis, but was acquainted with addresses to the sun, moon and stars. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Bees visited the terrace, and so did hummingbirds, lady bugs and generations of praying mantises. In the Garden: On City Rooftops, Scrappy Green Spaces in Bloom 2011-06-23T04:20:02Z A hideous grey mantis, about three inches long, walked slowly down an almond-blossomed branch. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The research team's waveplate is made of two layers of nanorods that are structurally similar to those in the eye of the peacock mantis shrimp. Mantis Shrimp Eye Could Improve HD CDs, DVDs 2011-06-27T15:22:00Z There were some mantis, which commenced to run on a tree while I was examining its bark. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z "The most prominent of the mythological figures," says Dr. Bleek, speaking of the Bushmen, "is the mantis." Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The newest generation of praying mantises is here, too, sleeping in a fat chrysalis on a taxus branch. In the Garden: On City Rooftops, Scrappy Green Spaces in Bloom 2011-06-23T04:20:02Z And like the praying mantis who's devoured In the embrace, man is devoured by women In some way, by some sort. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The wells extend out — each one long and flexible, like the legs of a mantis — over an area as large as metro New Orleans. The Will to Drill 2011-01-14T19:13:05Z Kangaroos, jumping bushbabies, springtail insects and the mantis shrimp all use different forms of elastic tissue to move, for example. Chameleon's tongue beats the cold 2010-03-09T11:20:00Z This is curiously like the Bushman myth of Cagn, the mantis insect, and his favourite eland. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z There might be seen birds, fish, and rats, likewise the mantis, centipedes, and beetles. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Of course this wonderful deliverance is of God’s sending, and we will thank Him heartily for it; but at present you must go with them and take the mantes with you.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Kolb, the old Dutch traveller, found that the Hottentots, like the Bushmen, revered the mantis insect. Custom and Myth New Edition In due time a proclamation arrived from England creating The Order of the Golden Horseshoe and also fifty tiny golden horseshoes inscribed in Latin "Sic jurat transcerde mantes". Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia He observed that the Khoi-Khoi worship the mantis insect, which, as we have seen, is the chief mythical character among the Bushmen.*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The little children could tell you the native names of all insects, such as caterpillars, crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers, locusts, mantis, honey bees, bumble bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, goliath beetles, stage beetles, ants, etc. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children Certainly––like the feminine mantis––if you find you don’t like him. The Crimson Tide A Novel Thunberg also heard of the worship of the mantis, or grey grasshopper. Custom and Myth New Edition His arms were held in front of him like a praying mantis', and his hands clutched a bar. They Twinkled Like Jewels If we may credit Kolb, the Khoi-Khoi are not only most fanatical adorers of the mantis, but "pay a religious veneration to their saints and men of renown departed". Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Instantly the water was churned into phosphorescent fire as they precipitated themselves upon the struggling mantis, whose enormous form, extending halfway from shore to shore, was covered with the river monsters, gnawing, rending, tearing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The most comical insect is the praying mantis. India and the Indians To ‘dance’ this or that means, ‘to be acquainted with this or that mystery;’ the dances were originally taught by Cagn, the mantis, or grasshopper god. Custom and Myth New Edition The 433Greek word mantis appears to have been a general term for any person, male or female, who had the power of perceiving the will of the gods. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Again, "all things that belong to the mantis can talk," and most things do belong to that famous being. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z There, suddenly, Tommy sees towering over him a creature that turns his blood cold—a gigantic praying mantis. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Kellas and I had a praying mantis in a large tin box with gauze as a lid so that we might watch him at his devotions. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" Among the insects is one commonly known as the "praying" mantis. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania The early distinction between the mantis and the prophetes is not clear. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV They were, in reality, not leaves, but insects, which, from their resembling leaves, are enabled to escape the attacks of other creatures; indeed, they were the well-known leaf-insect of the mantis species. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The huge legs, whirling through the air, came within a few inches of Tommy's head, but passed over him, and the mantis plunged into the stream. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The mantis reminds one of a small, green monkey, the fore pair of legs being well developed and used in prehension. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" Mr. Addison Ellsworth favors us with a transcript of a letter from Mr. Albert D. Rust, of Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, describing a remarkable exhibition of copulative cannibalism on the part of the mantis. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The Bushman god Cagn, who has the form of a mantis, and the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman seem to have no connection with totemism. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The capacious mouth is well suited for engulfing large insects such as locusts and mantises, which are mostly caught on the trees. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Before Dodd or Tommy had quite taken in the situation, the mantises, each carrying a victim in its grooved legs, had vanished like the beetles. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The most prominent of the animal mythological figures is that of the mantis, around which a great cycle of myths has been formed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This peculiarity of the mantis seems not to have been observed before, though their mutually destructive disposition has been noted by several. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. We find, however, that the terms are frequently used interchangeably; thus the Pythia is called both mantis and prophetis. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV A stray grasshopper, with green wings folded exactly like a large leaf, or an inquisitive mantis, blunders on to my writing-table occasionally, but not often enough to be anything but welcome. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. For, leaping through the air out of the places where they had lain concealed, six mantises launched themselves at their beetle prey. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 How many of you are acquainted with his lordship, the praying mantis? The Insect Folk Though plentifully supplied with flies, the young mantis fought each other constantly, the stronger devouring the weaker, until but one was left. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Though not intelligent enough to recognize the mantis as its mortal enemy, every instinct it possessed warned of extreme danger. The Mantooth The mantis was developed into an ape, and certain apes became at length hairless. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 I say nothing of bats, frogs and toads, mantis or even huge moths: to these we are quite accustomed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 This praying mantis is called a "mule-killer" in the South, where the people think the brown liquor it spits out of its mouth, when disturbed, is fatal to mules. The Insect Folk When a pair of mantis were put together in a glass they fought viciously, the fight ending with the decapitation of the male and his being eaten by the female. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. The tarantula strained mightily, but could not free itself from the mantis' vice-like grip. The Mantooth Kolb, the old Dutch traveller, found that the Hottentots, like the Bushmen, revered the mantis insect. Custom and Myth His forward body was now nearly upright, like a mantis, but with stronger, more flexible arms. Oberheim (Voices) In some parts of Africa the mantis is worshipped by the natives, and in France these fellows are believed to point out the way to travellers by stretching out one leg when questioned. The Insect Folk Mantis.—Cagn is a prominent figure in Bushman mythology; the mantis and the caterpillar, Ngo, are his incarnations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 As morning yielded gradually first to early, then to late afternoon, the three had still seen or heard nothing of the mantis. The Mantooth To ‘dance’ this or that means, ‘to be acquainted with this or that mystery;’ the dances were originally taught by Cagn, the mantis, or grasshopper god. Custom and Myth The mantis dexterously thrust forward first one and then the other armed fore leg, touching the intrusive nose, which was instantly jerked back and again slowly and inquiringly brought forward. Through the Brazilian Wilderness These strange egg-cases of the mantis are easily recognized because they look as though they were braided on top, as you can see in the picture. The Insect Folk That rarest of insects, the praying mantis, has just dropped upon my paper. Letters from the Cape Akar limped out of the enclosure and stood between them, studying the young mantis. The Mantooth There were tumble-bugs, grasshoppers, large beetles, mantis, praying mantis, toads and scorpions, together with others never seen outside of China, and some never seen at all, the legs and feelers all being made of wire. The Chinese Boy and Girl The mantis promptly assumed an attitude of prayer. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The young mantes are similar to their parents, only they have no wings. The Insect Folk Her bearing resembled that of a crane, her figure that of a mantis. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books But now, like the mantis, who had grown of Nature's necessity alongside it, the giant spiders were an archaic and dying race. The Mantooth The mantis is very intelligent and surprisingly aggressive. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Imagine a mantis, for example, as he chews up a fly, lifting one of his wings and applying it to his flanks to see if it smells gamey. Concerning Animals and Other Matters You know how the mantis uses these legs. The Insect Folk Lengthily and gravely Edgar uttered the words, 'Puzzle-monkey, praying mantis, sacred stork, howler.' The Pillars of the House, V1 The wolves are ancient allies of the mantis.' The Mantooth One variety of the mantis here is black and rugged, and is to be found only on charred wood. Confessions of a Beachcomber A long green praying mantis that had apparently mounted on the bougainvillea against the hotel wall appeared in meditative stateliness on the window-sill. Simon the Jester The front legs of the mantis are modified to catch and hold its prey. The Insect Folk Hashes of slug, Scolopendra or praying mantis furnish the same result. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography It was still morning when the young mantis emerged, looking little better than it had the day before. The Mantooth Few insects repay observation better than the mantis and the stick insect, which generally, of most voracious habits themselves, resort to all manner of disguises and devices to elude their enemies and lure their prey. Confessions of a Beachcomber Lola's voice from the bed startled me and caused me to drop the mantis. Simon the Jester Now, I will tell you something funny about the mantis. The Insect Folk The chief force in Bushmen myth is by Dr. Bleek identified with the mantis, a sort of large grasshopper. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 Soon she too could see that it was not the mantis they had known. The Mantooth Kites hover over the smoke, ready to pounce on the mantis and locusts as they spring from the fire. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 It grasps its victim, in its fore feet like the mantis, but instead of biting its prey it sucks out the juices. The Insect Folk The crickets, grasshoppers, walking sticks, praying mantes, and cockroaches, strange as it may seem, are all near relatives to each other. The Insect Folk Brushing off his half understood formalities, the mantis came straight to the point. The Mantooth But in an angry rocking motion that clearly showed its displeasure, the mantis waved him off. The Mantooth There in the darkness, packed together in thick, faintly luminous clusters of yellow-green wax, lay several large deposits of sebreum, self-synthesized food of the giant praying mantis. The Mantooth |
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