Here’s a cool fact: Praying mantises can turn their heads! 🦗 Unlike most insects, a praying mantis can rotate its head almost 180 degrees to scan its surroundings. This helps them be excellent hunters, spotting prey with their sharp eyesight—even while staying perfectly still. Pretty ninja-like, right?

🧠 Super Vision: Praying mantises have two big compound eyes and three small simple eyes—that’s five eyes total! They can see movement from up to 60 feet away.

🦗 Master of Camouflage: They blend in with leaves, flowers, or sticks. Some even look like orchids or dead leaves to hide from predators or sneak up on prey.

🥋 Fast Hunters: Mantises strike at lightning speed—some can punch out and grab prey in 1/20th of a second!

🧬 Cannibal Moms: Sometimes, the female eats the male after or during mating. It sounds wild, but it gives her nutrients to help grow her eggs.

🛩️ Flying Skills: Not all mantises can fly, but many males can—and they use their wings to escape predators or find a mate.

🌎 World Travelers: There are over 2,000 species of praying mantises around the world, most of them living in warm areas like the tropics.