Australian stick mantis
Archimantis latistyla
The Australian stick mantis is a long, thin, light brown mantis that looks like a dry stick or a blade of grass. It is a big insect, about as long as your hand is wide. The boy has long wings, but the girl has short ones.
Lives in
Australia, in grass and bushes
Length
9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It may pinch with its front legs if you grab it.
What does it eat?
Like all mantises, it catches other insects with its strong front legs.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🧱as long as 3 toy building bricks in a row✋about as long as your hand🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.6 seconds
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Australian stick mantis about 1.4 km/h (0.87 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The female is bigger, about 11 centimetres long. The male is about 9 centimetres.
2
The female has such short wings that she cannot fly. The male can.
3
Its brown colour helps it hide in dry grass.
you asked
Most asked questions about Australian stick mantis
?Is the stick mantis dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?How big is the Australian stick mantis?
About 9 to 11 centimetres long. The females are the biggest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Archimantis latistyla
- Group
- Mantises
- Family
- Mantidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea > Mantidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Grass mantis, Stick mantis
Where the facts come from
- Archimantis latistyla (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 Relic38. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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