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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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