Praying mantis is nonvegetarian which consumes insects for its survival and thus it does the work of insecticides. And thus very helpful to society and its health by the way eliminating harmful insects without insecticides. A Haryanvi song describing this insect is sung by women farmers of Nidana.Everyone in Haryana is well aquivented with its ootheca used to call it "giddad ki sundi"

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MANTIS AS PESTICIDE: THE HARYANVI FOLK