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Chinese Mantis

Tenodera sinensis

Photo by LisaPowers
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

3 inch long, brown mantis

Habitat:

Tall grasses in a rural yard

Notes:

This mantis caught and started to eat a moth while I watched. It was strange to see it eat the legs too! And it was covered from hair from the moth by the time it was finished.

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Comments (3)

Thanks Adarsha and Rieko! It was a little disturbing to watch it catch and eat the moth though.

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