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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Photo#1925
Mantid - Tenodera

Mantid - Tenodera
Duluth, Georgia, USA
September 8, 2003

Endangered?
I've heard that the praying mantis is endangered? Is that true? And, if so, how true is that?

are they bad
i live in georgia and see buggs looking like them all the time i was wondering if they were poisionous or venimous or any way harmful to humans...im not sure if it was this perticular kind but it looks like it are any of the other bugs that look like this hurtful??

This is a male.
This is a male.

 
what tells you that this is a
what tells you that this is a male?

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