探検昆虫

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.

生息地: Forests

外見

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.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaMantodeaMantidaeHierodula
Transcaucasian Giant Mantis
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Transcaucasian Giant Mantis

カテゴリ

昆虫

レア度

Common

危険度

1/5 · 非常に低い

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おもしろい事実

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!

特殊能力

能力

Lightning Lunge

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

能力

Perfect Pose

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

能力

Swivel Vision

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

サイズと詳細

翼開長
100-180 mm
サイズ
80-120 mm
寿命
180-365 日
脚の数
6

食性と食事

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

主な食物

  • Grasshoppers
  • Crickets
  • Flies
  • Moths
  • Beetles

採餌方法

  • Ambush

生態系とのつながり

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.

特徴

別名

まだ別名はありません。

コレクション

安全性

危険度

1/5 · 非常に低い

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

よくある質問

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisの翼開長は何ですか?

100-180 mm

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisのサイズは何ですか?

80-120 mm

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisの寿命は何ですか?

180-365 日

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisは何を食べますか?

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

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisは通常どこに生息していますか?

Forests

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisはどのように狩りをしますか?

Ambush

Transcaucasian Giant Mantisの脚の数は何ですか?

6

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