Preying mantises are meticulously clean insects. Here, a female carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, grooms a hindleg. Urbana, Illinois, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Magnificent Mantids

Preying mantises are an order (Mantodea) of large predatory insects recognizable by their spiny raptorial forelegs. Over 2000 species occur worldwide.

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Phyllocrania paradoxa, the ghost mantis, is an African insect that has become common in the pet trade.

Orthodera ministralis - Australian Garden Mantis. The small wing pads indicate this individual is not yet mature.

Melbourne, Australia

Orthodera ministralis - Australian Garden Mantis

Melbourne, Australia

An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia

Stagmomantis carolina, the carolina mantis.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Preying mantises are meticulously clean insects. Here, a female carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, grooms a hindleg.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Tenodera sinensis - chinese mantis, nymph.

This Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis) shows scars on her face from healed wounds.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Preying mantises are meticulously clean insects. Here, a female carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, grooms a hindleg.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Keywords: insect grooming preying mantis dictyoptera carolina mantis stagmomantis mantidiae

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Magnificent Mantids

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