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The scientific name of mantis is mantis, also known as knife mantis, which is an invertebrate and belongs to carnivorous insects. In ancient Greece, people regarded mantis as a prophet. Mantis is also called a praying bug because its forearm is raised like a praying girl. Apart from the polar regions, it is widely distributed all over the world, especially in the tropics. There are more than 2000 known species in the world. About 147 species are known in China. Including Chinese big knife mantis, narrow-winged big knife mantis, big knife mantis, brown static mantis, thin-winged mantis and green static mantis, mantis is an important natural enemy of agricultural pests. Appearance feature editor mantis (4 pictures) mantis is a large insect with a body length of 55 to 105 mm. African mantis is the largest mantis in the world, and its body is streamlined, mainly green and brown, with various spots; The iconic feature is that there are two "broadswords", that is, forelimbs, with a row of hard serrations, and a sucker that can be climbed at the end of the broadsword hook. The head is fan-shaped and smaller; The compound eye is prominent, large and translucent, mainly yellow-green, black under the night light, monocular, with three points between the eyes, namely monocular; The antenna is slender; The neck can rotate 180 degrees; Chew the mouthparts, and the upper jaw is strong. There are thorns in the leg joints and tibial joints of the forefoot, and the tibial joints are sickle-shaped and often fold to the leg joints to form the forefoot that can catch prey; The front wing is soft, covering the whole body, the rear wing is thinner than the front wing, the edge is transparent, the middle is radial purple-red, and it extends in a fan shape, and it meets the front wing at rest; Abdominal hypertrophy. The forefoot is sharp and developed, good at catching, and the middle and rear feet are suitable for walking, but sometimes the forefoot is also used to keep balance and gradually change. Living habits Mantis is a carnivorous insect, preying on all kinds of insects and small animals, and relying on plants to satisfy hunger when food is scarce, but this kind of insect is rare. It is common in weeds, but it is difficult to meet in fields and artificial green belts. It is fierce and aggressive by nature, and it will kill each other when it is a larva. It is more common for females to eat males. When the density of mantis is high, female mantis will eat female mantis. Large mantis species distributed in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia also attack small animals such as birds, lizards or frogs from time to time. Mantis will be protected by its own color instinct, but it can't change color like a chameleon. For example, green mantis will hide in the grass, brown mantis will sometimes appear on the trunk, and some of them are mimicry. Like the flower mantis, it can imitate the appearance of flowers and prey on many kinds of insects. It is very agile, and it only takes 0.0 1 second to hunt. It only eats live worms, and can also be mixed with feed-based omnivores when raised artificially. When you are frightened, your wings will stand up, your body will lean back, your abdomen will tilt up, and you will keep a vigilant posture. You have strong conditioned reflex and bright warning color. It is common in bushes rather than on the ground, and its shape can be like green leaves or brown dead leaves, twigs, lichens and flowers. Relying on mimicry can not only avoid natural enemies, but also be difficult to be found when approaching or waiting for prey. The life span of mantis is one generation a year, and it can occur twice a year near the equatorial rainforest. The life span of mantis from birth to death is about six to seven months. Growth and Reproduction Editor: Mating females have greater food intake, food intake and catching ability than males, because females shed their skin once more than males, and it is also the nature of mantis to eat males. According to scientists' speculation, female mantis will eat male mantis to replenish energy during mating. Mating mantis scientists observe the mating between mantis and broadsword in the laboratory. However, some improvements were made to the natural environment: they fed the mantis in advance and dimmed the lights to let the mantis enjoy it. People don't watch, but record with cameras. The result was unexpected: in 30 mating, none of them ate each other. On the contrary, they recorded the complicated courtship ceremony of mantis for the first time: male and female danced, and the whole process was as short as 10 minute and as long as two hours. Risk and Davis believe that one of the reasons why people have frequently observed mantis eating her husband in the laboratory before is that under direct observation, the mantis who lost the privacy of "Mantis mating and eating her husband's photo (1 1)" has no chance to hold a courtship ceremony, which can eliminate the malice of female mantis, which is necessary for male mantis to mate successfully. Another reason is that the mantis fed in the laboratory is often hungry, while the mother mantis treats her husband as delicious food when she is hungry. In order to prove this reason, Lisk and Davis did a series of experiments in 1987. They found that those female mantises who are in a state of high hunger (already hungry for 5 to 1 1 day) will jump on male mantises to grab food, and have no intention of mating at all. A moderately hungry female mantis will mate, but will try to eat her mate during or after mating. And those females who are not hungry don't want to eat their spouses. It can be seen that the mother mantis's main motive for eating her husband is because of hunger. But in the wild, not all females can eat their stomachs, so it is still possible to eat their husbands. In the mating behavior of European mantis, scientists conducted the first large-scale field study. Among the mating phenomena of mantis he observed, about 365,438+0% ate their husbands. In the wild, the female mantis may be moderately hungry. Eating male mantis is really beneficial to the offspring of mantis. A study shows that the number of offspring of a female mantis who eats her spouse is 20% more than that of a female mantis who doesn't eat her spouse. Leask and Davies also admitted that the phenomenon that European mantises eat their husbands may be far more common than other mantises, which gave them a bad name. Obviously, the male mantis doesn't want to be eaten. When he is eaten, the male mantis will resist, his forelimbs will attack and his mouth will open to fight back. Breeding females lay eggs in a special way, neither underground nor in plant stems, but on branches or shrub stems, with the emphasis on one being higher than the other. After two days of mating, females usually lower their heads. They first discharge a layer of foamy substance from the abdomen, then lay eggs on it in sequence, and then cover it with a layer of foamy substance, which will produce at least seven layers, just like a thousand-layer cake, so that the eggs can be easily drilled out when they become nymphs, and the egg sheath will quickly solidify. Before drying, it is as sticky as gluten, and after air drying, it will form a hard egg sheath. The traditional Chinese medicine in the egg sheath is called "ootheca ootheca" or "ootheca ootheca ootheca". Eggs are laid in egg sheaths, and there are 20 ~ 40 eggs per 1 egg sheath, arranged in 2 ~ 4 rows, and each female can produce 4 ~ 5 egg sheaths. In the early summer of the following year, hundreds of nymphs hatched from the egg sheath. The nymph molts several times and develops into an adult. For an incomplete pervert. Except the polar regions, it is distributed all over the world, especially in the tropics. In summer, you can often see mantis under the street lights in the city because mantis has phototaxis. Biological control mantis can prey on more than 40 kinds of pests, such as flies, mosquitoes, locusts, moths and butterflies and their larvae, small insects such as naked pupae and crickets, and large insects such as cicadas, locusts and owls. Through artificial anti-season cultivation, people can enjoy mantis all year round. Mantis is also a good material for building small zoos and wild insect gardens. Chinese medicine mantis preys on gecko. Ootheca mantidis is the egg sheath of mantis insects. The name of China traditional medicine is mantis, however, it is also called mantis, mantis, axe, axe-refusing, Cao Mao, Tianma, mantis, stone mantis, oboro, food oboro, knife mantis, mantis, father mantis and so on. Ma Langkang Chinese Pinyin Tanglang English name Mantis Latin animal and plant mineral name 1. Paratenoderasininsissassure 2。 Tenor 3. Staliliamaculatathunb 4。 Mantis returning to the soul; Liver meridian has the function of relieving spasm and convulsion; Detoxification and detumescence classification: The name of mantis Cora is ParatenoseraseuHierodula. Textual research comes from compendium of materia medica: mantis, head bending, abdominal repair, second-hand quadruped, fast fortune, need to change nose. In late autumn, milk is used as a house and sticks to branches, that is, it is also a cricket. This room is an inch long and as big as a thumb. There are many compartments in it, and there are children like maggots in each room. Eggs come out together after the mango festival. Therefore, the moon has clouds, and mantis is born in midsummer. Mantis, not used in ancient times, only used the Puji Fang (press: it should be the General Record of Shengji) to treat convulsions, which was used in the method of blowing your nose to calm convulsions, and also covered the meaning of silkworms and scorpions. In ancient times, wind medicine was mostly used to treat wind, so mantis also used the same principle to treat wind. Indications for infantile convulsions; Sore throat; Furuncle, swelling and sore poison; The ecological environment of beriberi is 1, and it inhabits grasslands and branches. 2. Shrubs, bushes and grasslands located in the leeward. 3, often active in farmland, mulberry trees, shrubs or fences near the melon frame. Collecting and storing, fishing in summer and autumn, and drying. Resources are distributed in most parts of the country. Efficacy classification: drugs for calming liver and calming wind; The medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis is sweet; Salty; Sexual temperature, usage and dosage: after grinding, 1-2 rats. External use: appropriate amount, nose pounding, nose grinding, throat blowing or dressing. Source: Chinese Materia Medica