Mantis Sentence Examples

A Mantis leasing program?

How long does a Praying Mantis live, anyway?

The chief being among the supernatural characters of Bushman mythology is the insect called the Mantis.'

Cagn or Ikaggen, the Mantis, is sometimes regarded with religious respect as African a benevolent god.

Of the 350 known species of mantis shrimps only two are found in British waters.

Lady beetles and praying mantis are both beneficial to your organic garden.

When they get infested with aphids, do we think about their enemy, the praying mantis?

On the west coast the " ananzi " or spider takes the place of the mantis insect among the Bushmen.

According to Qing, creation was the work of Cagn (the mantis insect), " he gave orders and caused all things to appear."

From thiscurious habitation the young mantids hang by threads till after their first moult (see Mantis).

If we are to regard the Egyptian myths about the gods in animal shape, and about the non-natural superhuman heroes, and their wars and loves, as esoteric allegories devised by civilized priests, perhaps we should also explain Pund-jel, Qat, Quawteaht, the Mantis god, the Spider creator, the Coyote and Raven gods as priestly inventions, put forth in a civilized age, and retained by Australians, Bushmen, Hottentots, Ahts, Thlinkeets, Papuans, who preserve no other vestiges of high civilization.

Attract and protect aphid predators such as ladybugs, lacewings, assassin bugs, praying mantis, adult wasps, spiders and chickadees.

Take a walk on the beach in one of the fun colors such as Tangerine, Miami or Praying Mantis or stick to a basic color such as white.

Breeders sell ladybugs and praying mantis as natural bug predators.

Mantis (Ruins Boss)-Get as close as you can and shoot the underside.

If you have the Photon MG, use it because it stops Mantis for a bit.

It comes in graphite and tropic pink or white and mantis, a minty green.

In one of the early interviews for the show, she calls herself a "praying mantis" when referring to her male relationships.

On the moors in late summer the mantis (kama-kiri-niushi) is commonly met with, and the cricket (kurogi) and the cockroach, abound.

The Mantis made an eland out of the shoe of his son-in-law.

The moon was also created by the Mantis out of his shoe, and it is red, because the shoe was covered with the red dust of Bushman-land.

The Mantis is defeated in an encounter with a cat which happened to be singing a song about a lynx.

The Mantis (like Poseidon, Hades, Metis and other Greek gods)was once swallowed, but disgorged alive.

But the Bushmen's mythical theory of the origin of things must, as far as possible, be kept apart from the fables of the Mantis, the Ichneumon and other divine beings.

Among the lowest races the culture-hero commonly wears a bestial guise, is a spider (Melanesia), an eagle hawk (in some myths and south-east Australia), a coyote (north-west America), a dog or raven (Thlinkeet), a mantis insect (Bushman), and so forth, yet is endowed with human or even super-human qualities, and often shades off into a permanent and practically deathless god.

Still think she should have let the preying mantis have him.

Like Heracles when he leaped into the belly of the monster which was about to swallow Hesione, the Mantis once jumped down the throat of a hostile elephant, and so destroyed him.

Yehl's powers of metamorphosis and of flying into the air are the common accomplishments of sorcerers, and he is a rather crude form of first father, " culture-hero " and creator.2 Among the Karok Indians we find the great hero and divine benefactor in the shape of, not a raven, nor an eagle-hawk, nor a mantis insect, nor a spider, but a coyote.