17/06/2023
Is beautiful inseact is known as prayingmantid, the name came because of its front legs like someone praying. in the world more than 2,000 species, they always live alone accept in mating time, they are carnivores feed on beetles, ants, cricket 🦗 and grasshopper. they use ambushing style in hunting, blending with nature is normal thing to them. they dont have ability to change colour like chameleone does but its colour changed by environment (temperature, humidity and light intensity).
they practice cannibalism, female eats male after copulation, their necks are so flexible can rotate 180 degrees side to side, they have good eyesight 👀, front legs have spikes so as to attack prey or to hold prey effectively. the lifespan is about one year, they lay eggs in dry season, after mating female stay two weeks then prepare ootheca or capsule to lay eggs(more than ten, up to 200eggs) and each egg has own chamber in capsule. ootheca is so strong to protect eggs from parasites, and birds. after two weeks or more than, eggs hatched, young come out side as nymph, dont have wings. Young after emerge from oothecae or capsule feed on small insects like amphids. researching done for those which practice cannibalism, female lay many eggs. their predators are lizards, bats, frog, snakes and birds. they eat alive prey, they do matings for hours, male is stronger in flight, babies molt often to become adult, they become mature after 3 months or More than(the whole process from egg to adult)