Category: Adaptations

Praying mantises are so cryptically colored and shaped that sometimes they get disappeared into their wild habitat. For those species that inhabit green vegetation they take the green shade while others including Carolina, they mimic orchid flowers and so on. However, do you really ever wonder if mantises are essentially camouflaged or they just change…

Praying mantis are amazing-looking creatures with slender legs and intimidating bulging eyes. It goes without saying that mantids are voracious predators yet they do possess some of the most effective antipredator mechanisms one that can thwart their predators. Camouflaging is one of them. That’s right, praying mantis largely protect themselves by camouflage. Let’s take a…

YES praying mantis can fly but probably not in a way other flying insects do. They have a clumsy flight and they can’t fly longer distances. Mantises are more of a jumping insect rather than flying. In fact, many mantises just can’t fly. In flying mantises, only males know how to fly. Females do possess…