The mantis of very few people leaves a Red Book insect indifferent. Impress both its sizes, and habits, and appearance. Because of a big jaw and predatory temper the mantis became the hero of many fairy tales and just tales.
Instruction
1. Mantises treat tarakanoobrazny insects. Large individuals reach 80 millimeters in height (mantises perfectly stand on back extremities), and females considerably surpass males in physical parameters. Pads at mantises different, back powerful with a good pusher reflex, and lobbies small, they serve for a hvataniye.
2. Under a dense naspinny raincoat – thin wings: the mantis not only quickly runs and far jumps, but also flies. The head of an insect big and extended, black-green spherical eyes and also powerful cone-shaped jaws are well visible. The aggressive mantis widely opens a mouth and toporshchit long mustache.
3. The color at these insects is various, certainly, green color prevails, but both brown individuals and yellow meet, there is an assumption that seasonally and age the insect changes a color. It is not about a hameleonstvo, and about a certain aging or adaptation of an integument. Besides it is known that mantises hunt from an ambush, the nature awarded them with everything for masking: from a distance legs are similar to twigs, and a paunch on a leaf.
4. Mantises are often called religious, this expression appeared from behind a specific pose in which the insect fades waiting for the victim: the mantis prayerfully puts front pads on a breast. The victim the mantis is enough with forepaws and presses to a hip, immobilizing. At the same time often gluttonous females attack on the victims which surpass them in the sizes, the case when the mantis attacked a sparrow is known and gained a victory, the bird gave up and flew away.