Sentences with phrase «in praying mantis»

My posture, compromised by the last three years sitting at my computer and writing in praying mantis position, has been vastly improved.

Not exact matches

In recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture CanadIn recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canadin charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canada.

Many of the downtown investments create that new, fun experience: There's a giant praying mantis statue, imported from Burning Man, that breathes fire, giant board games in the backyard of a lounge called the Gold Spike, and there's one live music venue and another in the works.

The beautiful eighteenth - century costumes and setting seduce us into viewing these affairs with a kind of horrified detachment, as though we were watching a «Nature» film on PBS showing the praying mantis being devoured by his mate in the act of copulation.

It's like a 7 - foot praying mantis who can run 20 miles an hour on a basketball court, ready to strike in an instant.

Such interspecies attraction has been seen before in other praying mantises.

It's bad enough that male praying mantises in New Zealand are finding themselves more attracted to invasive South African females than to their own species.

In DISCOVER's gallery of cannibal animals, we listed species like the praying mantis that engage in sexual cannibalism, with the female eating her matIn DISCOVER's gallery of cannibal animals, we listed species like the praying mantis that engage in sexual cannibalism, with the female eating her matin sexual cannibalism, with the female eating her mate.

While doing field research on wasps in 2010, D. J. Cox came across this gruesome scene of a praying mantis devouring a caterpillar that would, alas, never reach its monarch butterfly potential.

The newly described leaf - dwelling mantis, Cornucollis masoalensis, measures about 24 millimeters in length, which is small for a praying mantis.

The discovery of this new praying mantis ultimately highlights the need for continued research in museum collections.»

While studying the insect collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, two American scientists uncovered a small, leaf - dwelling praying mantis with unique features collected from Madagascar in 2001.

However, more than 70 percent were reported in the US, where praying mantises often capture birds at hummingbird feeders or plants pollinated by hummingbirds in house gardens.

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet.

In 2008, John Hafernik, an entomologist at San Francisco State University in California, was looking for insects to feed to praying mantises he had collected for a clasIn 2008, John Hafernik, an entomologist at San Francisco State University in California, was looking for insects to feed to praying mantises he had collected for a clasin California, was looking for insects to feed to praying mantises he had collected for a class.

The practice is common in spiders and other arthropods, including praying mantises and crickets.

The unicorn beetle in the picture, along with a black widow spider, praying mantis, scorpion and carpenter ant, are animated robots designed by the creators of ET.

This research establishes the validity of using female specimens in the classification of praying mantises.

In captivity, the females of some species such as the European or praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) have often been observed to kill and eat the male during sex, although it remains controversial whether this deadly love bite is commonly delivered in the wilIn captivity, the females of some species such as the European or praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) have often been observed to kill and eat the male during sex, although it remains controversial whether this deadly love bite is commonly delivered in themantis (Mantis religiosa) have often been observed to kill and eat the male during sex, although it remains controversial whether this deadly love bite is commonly delivered in theMantis religiosa) have often been observed to kill and eat the male during sex, although it remains controversial whether this deadly love bite is commonly delivered in the wilin the wild.

Female praying mantises are the poster child of dangerous sex, thanks to their predilection for biting off their mates» heads immediately after copulation (watch a video)-- but many seemingly mild - mannered creatures can also be pretty violent in their sex lives.

An entomologist trekking through Amazonian rain forest and sifting through musty museums has discovered 19 new species of praying mantis in Central and South America.

It's like we're all playing some A brave praying mantis clambers all over a baby crocodile for a sunbathing session in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - Animals fight a major battle with wolves on a ship, using all types of weapons and Kung Fu, other ships are piled together to block a river from a large ship that breaks through with cannon fire and flames, swords, flaming arrows and spears flash and wolves and other animals are punched unconscious; a panda catches a swung axe blade between the flattened palms of his hands without harm, a praying mantis rubs two hands together over a powder keg, his hands explode and it laughs, and we see one group of animals floating on debris in the river, tired out, while a panda deflects many fireballs shot from the ship's cannon.

Disgust, a green, judgmental mean girl voiced by Mindy Kaling, Fear, a skittish praying mantis of a figure (Bill Hader), and Anger, a literal hothead of a burning ember in a middle - management suit (perfectly pitched on the edge of outrage by Lewis Black), fill out the control room crew and end up panicking when left in charge.

Following a bug hunt and an afternoon looking at and handling stick insects, a praying mantis, snails, tarantulas and scorpions the students studied the depiction of insects in arts from earliest Egyptian to contemporary drawings, before producing their own studies, which were exhibited at a local gallery.

The final physical version of the ix Metro that toured European auto shows in 2009 looked like the face of a praying mantis, and the interior looked like the kind of car you'd imagine if you were tripping and needed a ride down the rabbit hole.

The middle grade novel tells the story of Flory, a fairy who loses her wings in an accident and must fend for herself in a garden alongside bats, praying mantises and other potentially threatening creatures.

There's no time - travel per se in this novel, but there are plenty of «connections that spiderweb through time and space,» as Austin and his best bud, Robby, accidentally unleash a plague of six - foot - tall flesh - eating praying mantises upon the world.

Zana has spent the past ten years photographing and filming insects in the wild, including the praying mantis.

Werner Drewes, Praying Mantis, 1944 Etching January 22 — March 30, 2011 The American Abstract Artists, formed in 1936, were drawn to Mondrian's ideal of the «splendor of dynamic structure.»

Further absurdist or cringe - worthy punning can be encountered in a bronze sculpture of a praying mantis praying from a scripture titled, wait for it, Life Sentences.

The works in the exhibition include Maradona, a grandiose figure in joyous repose — part man, part maypole, part praying mantis — which stands in duplicate at the centre of the exhibition.

But what if your pet praying mantis bites someone who's a guest in your home?

Praying Mantises are capable of turning their heads nearly 180 degrees, and their compound eyes have 10,000 lenses with visual acuity out to about 20 meters; in other words, if you think a Mantis is looking at you, it most likely is.