WHAT IS A PRAYING MANTIS ?
A Praying Mantis is a small insect that looks like a grasshopper.There 2,000 different types of the praying mantises. The biggest are 15cm and the smallest are 1cm.
what they look like .
Praying mantises are very skinny insects with curved legs .The position of the legs make them look like they are praying. Mantises blend in with there surroundings.
what they eat.
praying mantises are carnivorous ambush predators they eat other insects that they catch .It is very hard to escape from the praying mantis because it has very strong arms to hold and eat .
what stage of metamorphosis does it go through.
The praying mantis lays the eggs in autum.The eggs gets ready to hatch in spring .When they hatch the babies look like miniuture mantises.Once the babies are hatched they go out hunting for food.