A Phasmid 

 (Manomera) 



SUCCESSFUL CAMOUFLAGE 



Because of the position of tlie front legs when at rest. Slagmomaiitis and others of tlie same family, Mantidae, are 

 called "praying mantids" — but it is prey that they seek. Other names are "devdrs rear horses" and "soothsayers." In the 

 South they are believed, erroneously of cotirse, to poison stock with the brownish fluid from their mouths and are called 

 "mule-killers." They are the only insects that can look over their "shoulders." 



Some Phasmidae appear to be sticks that walk, hence the common name of "walking sticks." Our northern species 

 have no wings but in the tropics many species are "flying sticks." The species illustrated abo\-e is fairly common as far 

 north as New York Citv 



