<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/769f5636-4499-478d-9def-8333c572bde8/249A7C33-8CC0-4BF0-9A1C-AB3F979BFECC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/" href="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.soothbrush.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/"><DIV class="entry-head"> <DIV title="2008-07-24T16:42:44-0700" class="published_sm"><DIV class="day">24</DIV><DIV class="month">Jul</DIV><DIV class="year">08</DIV></DIV> <H3 class="entry-title"> <A title="Permanent Link to "Exploring the Wonderful World of Mantises"" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/">Exploring the Wonderful World of Mantises</A></H3> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/"><P>Mantises, Mantes, Mantids or whatever term you prefer to use for their plural form, are among the most fascinating and at the same time scariest insects in the world.The 2,300 species of praying mantises comprise an order of insects called Mantodea.The word ‘mantis’ is Greek, and means prophet or fortune teller. Praying prophet? Very appropriate. Mantids so often look like they know something we don’t.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.soothbrush.com/img/F585D96D-78C6-49FC-BCFF-87FC631ED17F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/">Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soothbrush.com/praying-mantis-insect/">Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. 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