File:Britannica Mantis.jpg

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English: Illustration of a preying mantis (Mantis religiosa) from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 17, p. 606.
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Not a very good reproduction, and I enhanced the contrast (to get rid of spurious background shading) and made it worse.

Public domain This image comes from the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1929. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.

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