...Apart from its lethal weapon the Mantis has nothing about it to inspireapprehension... 
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...When the Mantis is in repose its weapons are folded and pressed againstthe thorax, and are perfectly inoffensive in appearance...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The habits of the Mantis cannot be continuously studied in the freedomof the fields; the insect must be domesticated...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...At the sight of a great cricket, which thoughtlessly approaches alongthe wire-work of the cover, the Mantis, shaken by a convulsive start,suddenly assumes a most terrifying posture...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Motionless in its weird position, the Mantis surveys the acridian, itsgaze fixed upon it, its head turning gently as on a pivot as the otherchanges place...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The snout of the Mantis gnaws and burrows into this undefendedspot with a certain persistence, and a large wound is opened in theneck...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The little we have seen of the customs of the Mantis does not squarevery well with the popular name for the insect...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...At such times the Mantis is all nerves...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...We must conclude thatthe loves of the Mantis are fully as tragic, perhaps even more so, thanthose of the spider...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The Praying Mantis commences her nest at the blunter extremity, andcompletes it at the pointed tail...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...This ignorance may well proceed from the nocturnal habits of the Mantis...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Hashes of slug, Scolopendra or praying mantis furnish the same result...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Behold the Mantis caught by the abdomen...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... The dispossessed Wasp recognizes instantly, from the proud bearing of the substituted Mantis, that she is no longer embracing and carrying off an inoffensive carcase...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... I offer the Tachytes, deprived of her Mantis, a small Grasshopper, whose hind-legs I amputate to prevent his leaping...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... In the place of the Praying Mantis, offer the Mantis-hunting Tachytes an equivalent in the shape of a Locust...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Offer her a young Empusa, who differs so widely from the Mantis in shape and colour: she will accept without hesitation and operate before your eyes...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
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