A flower? A bug? After the flowers that resemble animals, such as the Monkey Orchid, the monkey-shaped orchid, or the Flying Duck Orchid, the duck-shaped orchid, the time has come to reverse the parts.
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A flower? A bug? After the flowers that resemble animals, such as the Monkey Orchid, the monkey-shaped orchid, or the Flying Duck Orchid, the duck-shaped orchid, the time has come to reverse the parties.
La Hymenopus crowned is a rainforest mantis of Southeast Asia known by various common names, including flower mantis and orchid mantis, who all remember his extraordinary ability to blend in with nature.
Characterized by the brilliant coloring and a finely adapted structure for camouflage, this insect imitates in all respects the parts of an orchid flower, so much so that it is hard to distinguish it even in photos. To make its mimicry perfect, there are its four shins that have the shape of the flower petals. But the anterior pair is toothed and is used, as is the case with all other mantises, to grab prey.
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La orchid mantis it can change its color from pink to brown, depending on the background and also exhibits some more pronounced sexual dimorphism traits than any other mantis species: males can be less than half the size of females.
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As if all these peculiarities weren't enough, its hunting technique is especially surprising: everything, in fact, is designed to make its prey mistake it for a flower. When they lean on her in search of the nectar, she will be able grab them with his paws and eat them.
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Roberta Ragni
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