| The mantid are pretty insects, of very different habits from the preceding. |
| There is a popular opinion that mantid males always are eaten, but many escape under natural conditions. |
| The Empusa, which forms another genus of mantid, has the antenn indented like a comb in the males, thread-like in the females. |
| Some of the ones on display are quitebeautiful and rare, such as the Malaysian dead leaf mantid. |
| According to superstition, the brown saliva of a mantid can cause blindness in a man, and a mantid, if eaten, can kill a horse or mule. |
| Manny the mantid clings to a branch of the mint plant that attracted many of his meals. |
