{"id":3491,"date":"2011-10-22T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2011-10-22T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:16:58","slug":"praying-mantis-in-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3491","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis in Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Pat Wakeman shared with us ideas of how to bring the outdoors inside to our classrooms.\u00a0 One of the things I have been bringing in from my backyard is a praying mantis.\u00a0 This is the second year we have been observing its carnivore-eating behavior, nest laying and hatching of eggs.\u00a0 The students have thoroughly enjoyed watching her&#8211;it is their first stop (by choice) when they come into the room.\u00a0 She has been easy to care for by catching grasshoppers outside and then inserting them into the terrarium.\u00a0\u00a0 A secure lid on the terrarium is required&#8211;I have metal screen held in place with a bungee cord.\u00a0 She only eats 1 or 2 grasshoppers about every 2 days.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a short video clip\u00a0 (1 1\/2\u00a0 mins) I found on the web that shows how a praying mantis captures it prey (audio information with video).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Ambusher__Praying_Mantis.wmv\">Ambusher__Praying_Mantis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Pat Wakeman shared with us ideas of how to bring the outdoors inside to our classrooms.\u00a0 One of the things I have been bringing in from my backyard is a praying mantis.\u00a0 This is the second year we have been observing its carnivore-eating behavior, nest laying and hatching of eggs.\u00a0 The students have<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=3491\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[566,564,563,565,562],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-teaching-resources","tag-camouflage","tag-carnivore-examples","tag-classroom-animals","tag-life-cycles","tag-praying-mantis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}