Jewelled flower mantis
The jewelled flower mantis is a small praying mantis from Asia. Like other flower mantises, it is pretty and colourful, which helps it hide among flowers. It waits very still and grabs small insects with its spiky front legs.
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Fun facts
It sheds its skin 8 times before it is grown up.
Its egg case can hold up to 50 eggs, and the babies hatch after about 5 weeks.
It is the smallest of its mantis group, but also the one that lives in the most places.
The males get along fine with each other, but the females sometimes eat other mantises.
Most asked questions about Jewelled flower mantis
?How big is a jewelled flower mantis?
Males grow to about 4 centimetres long, and females are a little bigger.
?What does a jewelled flower mantis eat?
Small insects that it grabs with its front legs.
?How long does a jewelled flower mantis live?
Kept as a pet, it lives about nine months.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Creobroter gemmatus
- Group
- Mantises
- Family
- Hymenopodidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Mantodea > Hymenopodidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Jeweled flower mantis
Where the facts come from
- Creobroter gemmatus (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 Basile Morin. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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