Spiny flower mantis
The spiny flower mantis is a small mantis that looks like a flower. It is usually light green, but can also be yellow, pink or red. On its wings it has a big spot that looks like an eye.
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Fun facts
When scared, it spreads its wings to show the big eye spot and look much bigger.
It has little spikes under its tummy, which gave it its name.
Its babies are black at first and change color as they grow.
It looks so much like a flower that insects try to drink nectar from it.
Most asked questions about Spiny flower mantis
?Is the spiny flower mantis dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people and only catches small insects.
?What does the spiny flower mantis eat?
Flying insects and spiders that it catches while pretending to be a flower.
?How big is the spiny flower mantis?
About 4 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi
- Group
- Mantises
- Family
- Hymenopodidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea > Hymenopodidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Amada44. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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