Praying Mantis

Common Name :  Praying Mantis

Distribution:  Widely found across India.

Habitat :     

• They prefer areas with plenty of plants where they can hide and hunt like grasslands, bushes, forests, agricultural fields, and gardens.
  
  

Defence:

• Camouflage, they look like leaves, twigs, or even flowers
  
  

 Life Cycle: (Draw)

• Egg → Nymph → Adult
  
  

 Food:

• Insects like flies, grasshoppers, moths, even small frogs, lizards and other mantises
  
  

 Interesting Facts:

• Camouflage, they look like leaves, twigs, or even flowers
• Can rotate their head up to 180°
• Called “praying” mantis because its front legs look like folded hands for prayers