Praying Mantis
By Emma Busenburg
Table of Contents
Meet and greet 1
Habitat 2
What a Praying Mantis eats
3
Movement of energy 4
Color 5
What class it's in 5
As the season changes 6
Adaptations 7
Websites 8
About the Author 9
Meet and Greet
The Chinese Praying Mantis is the largest of three
different kinds of Praying Mantids. It grows
from about 3-5 inches. The Carolina Praying
Mantis is very small it comes to about less than 2
inches.
Did you know a group of Praying Mantids is
offend not spelled correctly you spell it like this
Praying Mantids not Praying Mantises.
Habitat
A Praying Mantis is usually found in warm
tropical places.
These are places that they are usually found in
deserts, grasslands, meadow lands, and a rain
forest.
This is a picture of a Praying
Mantis in the forest eating its prey.
What a Praying Mantis
Eats
Most of the Praying Mantids pray are Mosquitoes,
Flies,,Grasshoppers, Beetles, Butterflies, Moths,
Spiders, Roaches, Bees, Dragon flys, Lizards, Frogs,
Rodents, and small birds.
The Praying Mantis usually bites there prays neck's
to paralyze them, the starts eating them.
This is a picture of a
Praying Mantis eating
her prey.
Food Chain
This is a picture of one of the many Praying Mantids
food chains.
Color
Praying Mantids camouflage with the leafs
because it is a leafy green color. It's color can
also be brown
This is a picture of a
Praying Mantis
camouflaging.
What Class It Is In
The Praying Mantis fits into insectivore. To
be more specific it fits into the Mantiae
family along with grasshoppers and other
insects like that.
Watch this video
As the Season Changes
As the season changes the female mantis
layers eggs and the dies. The eggs don't
hatch until spring in daylight.
Each one of the Praying Mantids eggs has
about 100-200 tiny mantids in them.
See the Praying Mantids being born
Structural
Adaptations
The praying
mantis can turn
their heads
180* to help
them see their
prey.
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The praying mantis has
more than two eyes to
help them see better.
Adaptations
Behavioral Adaptation
A praying mantis eats
bad bugs for you in your
garden.
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The praying mantids front
legs has two rows of
sharp spine to help them
hold
their prey.
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The praying mantis has
biting jaws to eat other
insects.
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The praying mantis has
very long and strong front
legs so they can reach
out and eat their prey.
Strong front and back
legs
Bibliog
raphy
http://phanimaladaptations.weebly.com/prayingmantids.html
http://www.brighthub.com Search for praying mantis
About the Author
Emma's first book was the Praying Mantis book. She has a
sister a dog and a guinea pig. She celebrates Christmas. She
also held a Praying Mantis before on the play ground I think that
is how she decided that she wanted to write a book about
Praying Mantids.