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Praying mantis - the number one killer in the insect world!
The slender, rounded, streamlined body, the flexible rotating triangular head, and the strong jagged folding knife are daunting! Ruthless killing style, the mantis with the highest force value, also known as the Insect Terminator!
A real insect knifeman!
The mantis family is a large family with many branches, many members, color and form are also very different, in addition to the polar regions, there are distributions all over the world, the tropics are the most abundant species, the mantis hunting weapon is folded on the chest of the two serrated folding knives, so it is also commonly known as the knife mantis, (non-singer) any prey as long as it is within the range of attack will be caught by the folding knife, the prey includes bees, butterflies, moths, flies, locusts, and even can catch lizards and poisonous snakes! The reputation of the knifeman is well deserved!
Mantis is an opportunist, good at ambushes, usually like to stay among the branches of the bushes, when the insects pass by, unexpectedly give a fatal blow! Due to the hunting nature of ambushes, most of the mantises are inconspicuous dark green or brown in color, but compared with the low profile of most mantises, the orchid mantis is an outlier of this family, and the properly valued mantis family "Bai Fumei"
Orchid mantis, a clever hunter with superior skills!
The orchid praying mantis lives in the tropical rainforest areas of Southeast Asia, and its appearance characteristics are no different from those of orchids, with a gradient of red and white body color, flat and wide like the footsteps of petals, but the delicate appearance of flowers cannot hide the true face of the killer!
Although the orchid mantis lives on orchids, they prefer to stay on other green plants disguised as flowers to wait for the rabbit, ambush the insects that come to collect honey or pollinate, the insects in the unknown often become the ghosts of the orchid mantis under the knife, in the relatives of the mantis family, the orchid mantis hunting is more skilled, they just need to stay quietly on the flower bush or tree trunk, waiting for the insects attracted by the flowers to catch and eat! Unlike other praying mantises, which only wait dry between the branches, the orchid mantis transfers the hunting ground to the flowers that insects can't refuse, and the flowers mean food to most insects, and the orchid mantis takes advantage of the insect's weakness and evolves itself into a death trap that the insect can't refuse!
Orchid mantis resembles the shape and hunting habits of orchids, there is a professional term, called "aggressive mimesis", in addition to the orchid mantis, aggressive mimesis also has a representative species, disguised as dead leaf fish (leaf perch), through the appearance of similar leaves to the fish, and then launch a surprise attack!
Mimesis is a very common phenomenon in nature, mimetic phenomenon not only occurs in animals imitating plants, (such as stick insects) the same, plants will also mimic into animals, (such as horned wasp orchid) Any mimetic essence is nothing more than hiding itself, warning predators, preying on prey or tricking animals into pollination, so that organisms win greater survival opportunities to spread genes!
Epilogue!
Nature is the selfless proctor of the Grand Duke, any creature must pass its round after round of the most stringent survival exams, all kinds of animals and plants through various means such as walking on thin ice in their respective examination halls to play the survival knowledge learned, it is these strange survival skills, let us in different habitats to see the magical performance of different creatures, so that our planet becomes wonderful, life is brilliant and wonderful!
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