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Aquatic insects eat the worms' offspring and are then consumed by other mantids, and the cycle repeats.—Darren Incorvaia, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024 For example, there are fish, moths, mantids and grasshoppers with hidden warning color patterns that place them in the middle of the conspicuous-camouflage spectrum.—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023 The mass production of baby mantids led to (by accident) my first biocontrol program: by setting the tiny nymphs free on my mum’s fuschias, an infestation of whitefly was combated.—Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 July 2017
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Etymology
New Latin Mantidae, group name, from Mantis, genus name
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