Sentences with phrase «praying mantis»

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.

Our work reduces this impediment by characterizing both sexes for praying mantis species.»

The Beginning of the End represents MST3K at its purest, featuring giant praying mantises on the loose and show favorite Peter Graves poised to stop them.

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

A scientist has discovered 19 new species of praying mantis from Central and South America.

In second grade we explored the creek bed behind my school looking for praying mantis and frogs.

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.

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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.

The hapless native, Orthodera novaezealandiae, is the only praying mantis native to New Zealand and is not sexually cannibalistic as far as anyone has observed.

Ilomantis ginsburgae is a new species of leaf - dwelling praying mantis from Madagascar.

Along with his friends, he somehow unleashes a genetically engineered plague that causes six - foot tall praying mantises upon their community and beyond.

Developer Sinister Design is using the existing setting from their previous game Telepath RPG, a psionics and steampunk world where people ride giant, armored praying mantises.

One beneficial contribution of science fiction is the repeated portrayal of humanoids becoming friends with all sorts of fantastic creatures, such as a super-intelligent six - foot praying mantis which laughs by clicking its mandibles.

Consequently, hummingbirds make up the vast majority of birds killed by praying mantises, with the Ruby - throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) being a particularly frequent victim.

A new study by the zoologists Martin Nyffeler (University of Basel), Mike Maxwell (National University, La Jolla, California), and James Van Remsen (Louisiana State University) now shows that praying mantises all over the world also kill and eat small birds.

When compared to other praying mantis species from this region, they found that this individual had many peculiarities that set it apart.

Dr. Svenson supported the study as part of his ongoing research to classify praying mantises based on evolutionary relationships.

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

When a female praying mantis lays its eggs, about how many eggs does it lay?

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.

Whether they're building an airplane or a cruise ship, or conducting a funeral for the class praying mantis, AEEC students are learning more than basic facts and skills.

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

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

The heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis.

Liturgusa krattorum, a new species of praying mantis discovered by Dr. Gavin Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is named for Martin and Chris Kratt of the television show Wild Kratts.

«Identifying a unique praying mantis hidden among other species was unexpected and exciting,» said lead author Sydney Brannoch, a Case Western Reserve University graduate student working under the direction of Dr. Gavin Svenson at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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 Canada.

Swift's first job was reportedly to knock praying mantis pods out of trees on her family's Christmas tree farm.

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.

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.

Scientists exposed varying sizes of populations of fruit flies to the scent of praying mantises during breeding and non-breeding seasons.

«Nineteen new speedy praying mantis species discovered that hide and play dead to avoid capture.»

Like most praying mantises, they are highly camouflage.

This is exciting because enormous potential exists for advancing our understanding of praying mantis diversity just by looking within our existing museum collections and conducting a few field expeditions.»

Praying mantises bring new meaning to the phrase «dinner date» — this luckless male is being eaten alive by the female he is mating with

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

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.

«Praying mantises hunt down birds worldwide.»

Black widow spiders or praying mantises munching on their mates make sense somehow — they look a little monstrous to begin with — but did you know that some seahorses are cannibals?

They may not have circuses devoted to them like fleas, but immature praying mantises are skilled acrobats.

Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History have pioneered a new method to identify praying mantises.

Many praying mantis species have males and females that look very different.

For the study, the researchers examined 30 praying mantis specimens from three museums.

Even praying mantises could help build better robots.

[Video reveals the incredible acrobatic feats (and occasional face plants) of a pouncing praying mantis]

The archetypal praying mantis is a fresh, new - leaf green with a tubular body and is seen as an ambush hunter.

These insects aren't your typical praying mantises, said entomologist Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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