praying mantis
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His proposed addition to Marcel Breuer’s original Whitney Museum would have hovered above it with predatory menace, like an 11-story concrete praying mantis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
We chatted and fed some house flies to a large praying mantis perched on the branch of a trumpet flower shrub.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023
Like the praying mantis who's male through the whole thing, and then has this egg sac, but Mom and I still call it "he."
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021
I looked down and saw a praying mantis, full grown and perhaps four inches long.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2021
Perhaps we may have noticed an oddly shaped insect of ferocious mien on a bush in the garden and been dimly aware that the praying mantis lives at the expense of other insects.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
