INSECTS 



body of the female mantis when the eggs are laid. The 

 young mantids are active little creatures, without wings 

 but with long legs, and it is the fate of those unprotected 

 green bugs, the aphids, or plant lice, that infest the leaves 

 of almost all kinds of plants, to become the principal 

 victims of their youthful appetites. 



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