How To Use Mantid In A Sentence
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The mantid had not cut deep enough to reach the axillary artery.
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SNAIL'S TALES: Scientist attacked by vicious mantid!
Scientist attacked by vicious mantid!
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This type of feeding can be found among certain spiders, mantids, scorpions, copepods, and midges.
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Hi guys, found this tiny mantidfly on my back door.
What's That Bug?
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Diane is having a banner year and there are several mantid egg cases that have been noticed.
Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden
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Or you can use biological controls, such as praying mantids, predator flies and beneficial nematodes.
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Spent the rest of the week trying to show people an imperceptible mantid wound.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cockroaches, termites, and mantids form the well-accepted monophyletic group Dictyoptera.
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Molecular characterizations and spectral tuning studies have been performed on opsin proteins found in many insect groups, including bees, moths and butterflies, mantids, fireflies, and fruit flies.
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The mantid case is too cool, agreed, and the babies are too cute!
Twiggy « Fairegarden
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You will also need a nice copper mantid to stand guard of course.
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A new sibling species of the anuran subgenus Blommersia from Madagascar (Amphibia: Mantellidae: Mantidactylus) and its molecular phylogenetic relationships.
Archive 2006-03-01
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I enjoy the company of mantids, and although I know she'll die before spring, it's nice to give her a few more months and a chance to see snow falling.
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Albert was taken by a third of this species—really an upright mantid of sorts, its carapace like a gleaming veined topcoat in swallowtail.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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It took her a long time to pick out the mantid from her hiding place among the foliage.
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The book is full of these sequences, with frogs, pinkies, mantids, tarantulas, snakes, and more.
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Upon hatching, the mantids must have live food every 2-3 days.
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This type of feeding can be found among certain spiders, mantids, scorpions, copepods, and midges.
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An observed attraction of infected crickets and mantids towards water indicates that the parasites may induce this behavior, but the physiological stimulus is unknown.
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In the praying mantids, the insect group most notorious for sexual cannibalism, males have been suggested to reduce the females' aggression by courtship displays and ‘cautious behavior’.
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Claudius et longo transmittit habere nepoti. quis superos metuens pariter tot templa, tot aras promeruisse datur? summi Iouis aliger Arcas80 nuntius; imbrifera potitur Thaumantide Iuno; stat celer obsequio iussa ad Neptunia Triton: tu totiens mutata ducum iuga rite tulisti integer, inque omni felix tua cumba profundo.
To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
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I have never been treated like that by a female mantid before.
Scientist attacked by vicious mantid!
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In a heart-stopping moment, the heel of her boot ground against a rock, but the mantid didn't sense the vibration.
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Most praying mantids have a single midline ear in the ventral metathorax.
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Flying mantids that hear ultrasound perform a bat evasion behavior that comprises a head roll, complete prothoracic leg extension, wing beat changes, and abdomen dorsiflexion.
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No sooner had I recovered from the psychological trauma of last week's mantid attack than my pure blood was spilled again in broad daylight.
Scientist attacked by bloodthirsty tiger!
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Do look for the mantid egg case, they are way cool and considered beneficial, although they will eat any bug that comes within their grasp, good along with the bad.
Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden
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‘There's some evidence the female has to eat the head of the male mantid to release the full complement of mating behaviors,’ Heydon said.
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Are mantids, likewise, just predatory roaches?
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A mantid is the most humanlike of insects; it has its eyes arranged so that it can see forward, allowing it depth perception.
The Killing Kind
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You can also introduce preying mantids (via their eggs), and decollate snails are predators of other snails.
Undefined
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I found a mantid outside after taking my daughter to school and took pictures of it, eventually getting it to walk onto my hand.
Scientist attacked by vicious mantid!
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Flying mantids that hear ultrasound perform a bat evasion behavior that comprises a head roll, complete prothoracic leg extension, wing beat changes, and abdomen dorsiflexion.
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In the majority of cases, the terrestrial hosts are (at least partially) carnivorous animals such as carabid beetles, praying mantids or crickets (Ensifera).
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The mantid was expanding still, like a chick fluffing itself out after hatching.
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Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr. Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower.
Darwinism (1889)
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The mantid was lying on her back, the massive trunk having crushed her abdomen nearly flat.
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Scientists group cockroaches, praying mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects and some other insects together as orthopteroid insects.
