Saturday, May 17, 2008

Flower Mantis


I have two classmates , they are both interesting in insects , and they have many grate book which interview many kinds of insects .
Yesterday I borrow one of these books from them , and then I was soonly fascinated with a special insect , Flower Mantis . The name matches the reality , Flower Mantis is just look like a part of flower .
The general mantis are alaways green or brown , these color is userful for disgusing a piece of leaf or a branch when they want to catch some little insect as their food . To be entirely different , flower mantis disguises as the flower , it means they could just catch the insects like butterfly or bee on flower , or their colorful coat would let them to be detected by their games if they stay on the branch or a piece of leaf . But disguises as the flower is also a advantage that the flower mantis could avoid to competing with other mantis for hunting or for habitat. I think they are really the magical and smart insect .
(The source for graph : http://www.tbg.org.tw/~tbgweb/cgi-bin/leobbs.cgi)

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