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Later they will eat larger insects, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, and other pest insects. Praying mantises are large, solitary, slow moving, and predaceous insects that catch their prey with their front legs. They do not have jumping hind legs. Of the 20 species of mantises that occur in North America, the introduced Chinses mantis, at a lenght of as much as four inches, is the largest.
The Bug Box: Praying Mantis. Posted: April 23, 2013. The praying mantis is an insect that can stir our curiosity with its beauty and mystique... The Praying Mantis is a long, slender, graceful creature, named for the way it holds its front legs together, bent and held at an angle that suggests prayer.