| Inside were taxidermically preserved specimens of a hummingbird, snake, bat, lizard, frog, and praying mantis. |
| It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you. |
| The common European mantis is classified as Mantis religiosa, while the Carolina mantis is classified as Stagmonantis carolina. |
| Like jackals around a tiger kill, small flies hovered around the feasting mantis, even daring to settle on its grotesque pea-like eyes. |
| The mantis shrimp's elongate, jointed carapace sports stalked eyes, the most complex in the animal kingdom. |
| Perhaps they're a pair, I thought, and went indoors and fetched my mantis and placed him on the jasmine bush, opposite his fellow insect. |
