| In the majority of cases, the terrestrial hosts are carnivorous animals such as carabid beetles, praying mantids or crickets. |
| There are no grounds, however, for supposing that the mantids had any appreciation of the warning coloration of the Acraeines. |
| Scientists group cockroaches, praying mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects and some other insects together as orthopteroid insects. |
| An observed attraction of infected crickets and mantids towards water indicates that the parasites may induce this behavior, but the physiological stimulus is unknown. |
| Or you can use biological controls, such as praying mantids, predator flies and beneficial nematodes. |
| Most praying mantids have a single midline ear in the ventral metathorax. |
