Carolina Mantis

Shawn Olson

Posted Sep 29, 2003
Last Updated Apr 30, 2012
Praying Mantis
praying mantis

Praying mantis... bizarre, beautiful, deadly. The photos on this page are of the Carolina Mantis*, which usually has a blotched gray or dull brown body. All specimens I have found of the Carolina Mantis have been around five (5) inches long. Because of their color, they are easiest to spot when on green plants.

*I may have mislabeled this mantis. See comments below.

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Happy1892

Apr 29, 2012

The females should be more like 6 cm long. And green is more common here (North Carolina).

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Shawn Olson

Apr 30, 2012

Thanks for the input.

After your post, I did a brief search and found that the Carolina mantis should not be any more than 2.5 inches. So I have been misjudging size, misidentifying this mantis, or there is a variation in my region.

Most of the mantises that I've thought to be the Carolina mantis have been langer that 2.5"... so I am going to look into it.

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