Talk:Praying mantis (disambiguation)
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please rename this page to "Prey Mantis" or "Preying Mantis", for they prey not pray :)
No they don't. They're so named because of the prayer-like stance they adopt before they strike. I think. :-) -- Evercat 20:10 May 7, 2003 (UTC)
Opps, they seem to be spelled both ways :-) Either way the insects don't care :-)
Okay, what are we doing? :-)
- Too much at one time, I think. <G> I'll lay low until everyone's done, though it seems ok now. There are lots of good pictures of mantids, I hope we can find some. -- Someone else 20:27 May 7, 2003 (UTC)
Oops. There's a slight bug in Wikipedia when clicking edit on a redirect page can sometimes edit the other page. Things seem OK now. -- Evercat 20:26 May 7, 2003 (UTC)
I think this would be an excellent case for disambiguating by having the main article (material currently at praying mantis (insect) here at praying mantis about the insect, with a stub at the top or bottom for the praying mantis kung fu, reduced to a link when there's a separate article for that. -- John Owens 21:44 May 7, 2003 (UTC)
- I agree. The insect is clearly the central thing from which anything else derives its name. -- Evercat 20:57 May 8, 2003 (UTC)
On the nl: and de: wikipedia it is the order of the Mantodea. GerardM 12:42, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
How about moving this text to Mantis, and then having Praying mantis free for the only European species, Mantis religiosa? That's currently under European mantis, which is a term only used of it in America, not in Europe. Here, it is simply the "praying mantis". There are (in my understanding) other mantids, but only one species of praying mantis. Stemonitis 12:59, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There look to be a bunch of species of "praying mantids"
The section in the reference points to this source (http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/trees/ef418.htm) that seems to be pretty good. I'd argue that typing in praying mantis in search shouldn't taking you through 2 levels of redirection to get to an article that only discusses the south carolina variety. Wikibofh 23:00, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ok...
The taxobox was whacked. I've put in a stub. I created an initial header and a few categories. This probably also needs some stub/cleanup tags applied. I'll try to work on this article slowly over the next week. Wikibofh 23:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wow...article looks much better...wonder if something got saved between my sessions, as the last comment is a "revert". Thanks for the edit. It looks MUCH better than when I first ran across it.
Merge...
I think this should actually be merged with Mantidae, and this made disambig. The reason it's in the current state that it is, is that when I stumbled on it, Mantodea and Mantidae either didn't exist or redirected to here. I tried to clean up those, and just pasted in the front paragraph from this. If people who actually understand the taxonomy can fix it that would be great. Wikibofh 04:13, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
