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Some of the beneficial insects that prey on garden pests — ladybugs, lacewings, praying mantids, hoverflies — are beautiful, but don't be fooled by appearances.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021
Chiang’s story called the calligraphic text an evocation of “fanciful praying mantids drawn in a cursive style, all clinging to each other to form an Escheresque lattice.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2016
In most cases the effect is PROTECTIVE; but in snakes, spiders, mantids, and other preying animals it is termed AGGRESSIVE, since it enables these animals to stalk their prey undetected.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas
