Characteristics and living habits of mantis

Mantis likes to live in high temperature and sunny places, with the most species in tropical areas, with a body length of 55 ~ 105mm and a streamlined body, mainly green and brown. Its iconic feature is that it has two "broadswords", namely forelimbs, which have a row of hard serrations and a climbing sucker at the end of the broadsword hook. The head is fan-shaped, the compound eye is prominent, large and translucent, mainly yellow-green. Mantis has phototaxis.

The front legs and tibia of mantis are spiny, and the tibia is sickle-shaped, which often folds to the legs to form the front legs that can catch prey; The front wing is soft, covering the whole body, the rear wing is thinner than the front wing, the edge is transparent, the middle is radial purple-red, and it is fanned out, and it meets the front wing at rest; Abdominal hypertrophy. The front foot is sharp and developed, good at grasping the ground, and the middle and rear feet are suitable for walking.

Mantis is agile, and it takes only 0.0 1 second to hunt. It only eats live worms and holds its prey firmly with its prickly front feet. When you are frightened, your wings will rustle and you will show a bright warning color.

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Matters needing attention in raising mantis

1, select the appropriate container.

Large-caliber plastic bottles and glass bottles can raise mantis. Usually, the conditions of air circulation are selected. In this way, the range of mantis activities is large, and the ventilated container can reduce the occurrence of mantis diseases, especially in summer, when the temperature is relatively high, if it is not ventilated, it will produce a lot of water vapor and breed bacteria.

2. Choose the appropriate built-in

Mantis rests with its head down, so the container must have a built-in climbing, which is convenient for mantis to crawl and rest. You can choose a certain length of branches, soft sand nets, iron sand nets and so on. , and master the placement angle. If you can accept it, you can also put it on flowers for free-range, which is convenient for laying eggs.

3. Pay attention when molting

Mantis will shed its skin when it reaches a certain age. At this point, it is weak. Don't touch it, otherwise it will cause physical injury, disability or direct death. During molting, you must take good care of it until mantis regains its vitality. Because improper molting leads to disability, feed it by hand and don't let it starve to death.

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