The Praying Mantis

Did you know there is an awesome insect that prays ?

The Praying Mantis sits on a comfy leaf in the shade and brings their front arms up under the chins.They look like they are praying and that is why they are called a Praying Mantis.

Praying Mantis are a really cool insect.They look lots like a grasshopper and are about the same size.They have heads the shape of a triangle.

The Praying Mantis is an insect that is 25mm to150mm long and has eight long legs.

These insects can live up to about a year and fourteen months.

A Praying Mantis eats yucky and gross spiders and really tiny wasps to gobble it down their throat.

Amazingly, the Praying Mantis can eat something bigger than itself- like small reptiles, birds,small frogs, and lizards!

I found one once in a silver fern bush. The Praying Mantis is a cool insect.

   by  Jason