![Picture of a green praying mantis or Mantis religiosa](praying-mantis.jpg)
Green praying mantis or Mantis religiosa
![Picture of a green praying mantis eating a grasshopper](praying-mantis-grasshopper4.jpg)
Green praying mantis
eating its grasshopper prey
![Tan praying mantis waits in ambush in snow buckwheat](praying-mantis-buckwheat.jpg)
Tan praying mantis
waits to ambush from snow
buckwheat
![Tan praying mantis eating a mormon cricket ambushed from snow buckwheat](../animals/insects/crickets-katydids-grasshoppers/shield-back-katydid-mantis.jpg)
Tan praying mantis
eating its coulee cricket prey
![Picture of a tan praying mantis catching large locust](../animals/insects/crickets-katydids-grasshoppers/carolina-grasshopper-mantids.jpg)
Praying mantis
subduing a large Carolina grasshopper
![Praying mantis egg case](../animals/insects/mantids/praying-mantis-egg-case.jpg)
Praying mantis egg case, November
Click to enlarge
![Praying Mantis eating its prey's brains](praying-mantis-grasshopper2.jpg)
Praying mantis eating its prey,
Carolina grasshopper
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