praying mantis
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His proposed addition to Marcel Breuer’s original Whitney Museum would have hovered above it with predatory menace, like an 11-story concrete praying mantis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The first step toward that vision is materializing in Motiv’s climate-controlled clean room: a sleek robotic arm whose angles resemble those of a praying mantis.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck blood out of wounded peers, and mosquitoes snack on larvae.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022
Like the praying mantis who's male through the whole thing, and then has this egg sac, but Mom and I still call it "he."
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021
He was a whole head taller than Bobby Gene, but he was scrawny, with long, knobby limbs like a praying mantis.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
