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[APD] Re: Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 5, Issue 45
I want to be a mantis shrimp for Halloween this year.
Cheryl Rogers
Oak Point, TX
Paul Krombholz <krombhol at teclink_net>
They are called mantis shrimp, or stomatopods. Their front legs
superficially resemble the raptoral front legs of a praying mantis.
They have an immensely powerful strike. They either spear their prey
or smash it with the calcified, club-like appendages. A large mantis
shrimp has enough power in its strike to smash double layered safety
glass.
-- Paul Krombholz in sunny central Mississippi
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