Common green mantis
The common green mantis is a praying mantis from Africa. It is a hungry hunter that will catch almost any animal of the right size. It lives for almost a whole year, and the females usually live longer than the males.
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It lives for about 332 days, which is almost a whole year.
Female mantises usually live longer than the males.
Only about 4 out of every 10 babies grow up to be adults.
Scientists used to give it other scientific names before they settled on the one it has today.
Most asked questions about Common green mantis
?What does the common green mantis eat?
Almost any prey of the right size, mostly insects.
?How big is the common green mantis?
About 65 to 75 millimetres long, as long as a grown-up's finger.
?Is the common green mantis dangerous?
No. It has no sting or venom and is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sphodromantis gastrica
- Group
- Mantises
- Family
- Mantidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea > Mantidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- African mantis
Where the facts come from
- Sphodromantis gastrica (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 Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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