How to Use mantid in a Sentence

mantid

noun

• What was even more telling, is that the mantids did not attract the matador bugs that were actively waving.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• Notably, female mantids sometimes kill males during courtship.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
• Second, most mantids sold commercially are non-native species.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
• With large wings, powerful forearms, sharp teeth, and the ability to turn their heads 180 degrees, mantids are skilled hunters.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
• On average, the matador bugs increased their waving behavior seven times more in the presence of the predatory mantids.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
• As generalist predators, mantids consume a variety of insects, including grasshoppers, beetles, caterpillars and moths.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
• They are known to parasitize crustaceans and insects including praying mantids, beetles, crickets, and occasionally millipedes and centipedes, according to the study.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
• First, mantids feed indiscriminately, consuming a wide variety of insects including beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies, and syrphid flies.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
• To learn more about what the matador bugs are doing, a team from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) exposed the bugs to two different types of arthropods–praying mantids and katydids.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025