Sure mantis species, like Kongobatha diademata, flatten their our bodies in opposition to leaves, a observe known as leaf-planking
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Some mantises can style leaves with a newly found sensory organ: an odd, bristly bump projecting from their chests.
This “gustifolium” is not like something seen in mantises or every other predatory bugs, say the researchers who made the invention. It could have developed to assist sure mantises’ extraordinarily specialised existence.
Some praying mantis species present in Asia and Australia have interaction in “leaf-planking”, flattening their our bodies in opposition to the underside of leaves as they cling, immobile.
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