The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) or praying mantis is a species of praying mantis native to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Praying mantis species can come in different colors, like brown, green or yellow. You might be most familiar with the green variety, as those are often depicted in photos, movies and so on.

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Try to sneak up on a praying mantis, and you may be surprised when it looks over its shoulder at you.

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Praying mantises, barnacles, newts and earthworms have some of the strangest love lives.

And praying mantises were supposedly only the tip of the iceberg. Spiders, aphids, booklice, weevils and beetles lurked in holiday trees as well, according to news reports.

Those strange, brown clumps are filled with 100 to 200 praying mantis eggs, and the last thing you want is to have that egg sack hatch inside your home during this magical time of year.

A praying mantis egg sac is light brown in color, about an inch-and-a-half wide and has an outwardly appearance that looks like foam insulation.

Tami Gingrich sheds light on the vicious feeding habits of different species of praying mantises, and the plight non-native species can be to pollinators.