Stock Photo: Distinctive Praying Mantis In The Garden
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Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects. Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis. Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations.
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