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• n  predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer

• The mantis, the Arlington students explained to the Virginia legislators, eats bugs that destroy the corn, peanuts and tobacco of Virginia, while the butterfly in the .
• Re the praying mantis' being voted by the Virginia legislature as the state insect March 15: I know that a candidate, when elected, tends to change in the public eye, but I didn .
• One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world.

• mantid

News & Articles

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• Praying Mantis Reveal New Lineup
  Praying Mantis have revealed their new lineup after firing vocalist Mike Freeland and drummer Gary Mackenzie, as Classic Rock reported yesterday
  July 9, 2013 - antiMUSIC
• Praying Mantis Fire Singer and Drummer
  Praying Mantis have fired singer Mike Freeland and drummer Gary Mackenzie
  July 8, 2013 - antiMUSIC
• If you don't run screaming, this spiderbot could teach you to dance
  Arachnid fanciers rejoice, you can now bring a spiderbot home. OK, perhaps it isn't as terrifying as the all-terrain Mantis which can seat (and perhaps eat?) a human.
  July 5, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Gore Verbinski in calendarlive.com
  He's a praying mantis,Verbinski says of Sao Feng. "You are not quite sure if you love him or if you can trust him. He takes us through the entire journey." "He's not one straight line. He has so many faces. You can say he's a bad...
• Amani Toomer in NJ.com (blog)
  Yeah, he looks like a praying mantis,Toomer said, before laughing his way into a side room for a post-practice massage.
• Richard Linnehan in Spaceflight Now
  If you could picture what a praying mantis would look like, that's what I liken Dextre to,Linnehan said in a NASA interview. "I grew up with cartoons and sci-fi and there used to be this show on when I was a kid called 'Gigantor, the Space...