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Transcaucasian Giant Mantis

Hierodula transcaucasica

The Transcaucasian Giant Mantis is a big, green insect that looks like a leaf! It can be found in gardens and forests, where it loves to hide and catch its food.

Lebensraum: Forests

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The Transcaucasian Giant Mantis is a large, robust mantis typically vibrant green to yellowish-brown, allowing it to camouflage in foliage. It possesses large, widely spaced compound eyes and powerful, spined forelegs held in a prayer-like posture, distinctly different from a stick insect's slender legs.

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Transcaucasian Giant Mantis
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Transcaucasian Giant Mantis

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Female mantises lay their eggs in a protective foamy case called an ootheca!

Mantises can hear bats with a single ear located on their chest!

Some mantises are kept as pets because they are fascinating hunters to watch!

This giant mantis can sometimes eat smaller mantises, even its own mate!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Lightning Lunge

The Transcaucasian Giant Mantis can strike prey with incredible speed using its spined forelegs because of powerful muscles.

Fähigkeit

Perfect Pose

This mantis can blend seamlessly into its leafy surroundings because of its green or brown body, helping them ambush unsuspecting insects.

Fähigkeit

Swivel Vision

Transcaucasian Giant Mantis can rotate its triangular head almost 180 degrees that helps them scan for prey without moving its body.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
100-180 mm
Größe
80-120 mm
Lebenserwartung
180-365 Tage
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

A fierce hunter, this mantis loves to eat many different kinds of insects.

Hauptnahrung

  • Grasshoppers
  • Crickets
  • Flies
  • Moths
  • Beetles

Nahrungssuche

  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Great Green Bush-cricket

Tettigonia viridissima

A common prey insect in its grassland habitat.

hunts

Bluebottle Fly

Calliphora vomitoria

Opportunistically captures various flying insects.

eaten by

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Birds are major predators of mantises in many regions.

eaten by

Sand Lizard

Lacerta agilis

Small reptiles can ambush mantises, especially nymphs.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be careful not to touch insects without asking an adult first.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

100-180 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

80-120 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

180-365 Tage

Was frisst Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

A fierce hunter, this mantis loves to eat many different kinds of insects.

Wo findet man Transcaucasian Giant Mantis normalerweise?

Forests

Wie jagt Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

Ambush

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Transcaucasian Giant Mantis?

6

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