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Mantidis are absolute masters of disguise and fearsome insectavors. Their camouflage is often enhanced by carefully choreographed movements that mimic the plants they are disguised as and hunt on.
Believe it or not, you are staring into the eyes of a tropical praying mantis. This Ecuadorian Mos Mantid comes adorned with so many stealth adaptations that you will have to look three or four times before you have a change of recognizing it’s outline. These mantids utilize coloration, structural adaptations and behavioral modeling to deceive it’s victims of the approaching danger.
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Mantidis are absolute masters of disguise and fearsome insectavors. Their camouflage is often enhanced by carefully choreographed movements that mimic the plants they are disguised as and hunt on.
Believe it or not, you are staring into the eyes of a tropical praying mantis. This Ecuadorian Mos Mantid comes adorned with so many stealth adaptations that you will have to look three or four times before you have a change of recognizing it’s outline. These mantids utilize coloration, structural adaptations and behavioral modeling to deceive it’s victims of the approaching danger.
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I find myself wondering how that behave to better match the moss as they approach or prey approaches. In north america, the manti sort of rock or sway at times I suppose to mimic or not stand out from ever shifting vegetation...should they be located on vegetation. Now if they are on a rock or wall of a building perhaps, I have noticed they no longer behave thusly, but are then very still. They are quite shrewed as are all the flying creatures I have studied somewhat closely.