mantises

Others wonder if they should invest in peacocks and praying mantises which, they speculate, will gobble up the little stinkers.

有些人还想一探究竟，是否应该养殖孔雀或螳螂。他们推测，这些小臭虫会是它们美餐的对象。

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and mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.

要知道是螳螂出现后螳螂虾才被叫做这个名字的。与螳螂一样它也有一个快速猎食的附肢。

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he photographed these praying mantises dozens of times and then used a computer to meld those views into a single image.

他拍摄这些螳螂二十多次，然后利用电脑将许多图像融成一个单一图像。

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Photograph by Mark Moffett Most of the roughly 1800 species of mantids-often called praying mantises-spend their time sitting and waiting, seemingly at prayer.

在大约1800种螳螂中，大多将他们的时间花在静坐和等待中，看起来犹如虔诚的祈祷者，常被称为“祈祷螳螂”。

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large mantises have been known to eat lizards, mice and small birds - making a male a small snack.

据悉，一些体形较大的螳螂物种甚至能够吃蜥蜴、老鼠和小鸟，对于自己的雌性配偶而言，它只是一顿快餐而已。

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