They look like they're praying while preying

Usage examples of mantises.

Praying mantises, birds - especially swallows, frogs, river turtles, lizards, spiders and dragonflies all eat mosquitoes.

And once they come down to earth, they are preyed on by ants, frogs, spiders, mantises and lizards.

It can be a lot of fun to watch the mantises hatch, but the event is easy to miss.

Ironically, most fall prey when they first hatch to ants, lizards, and other predators - larger mantises included.

Other predators include praying mantises, spiders, frogs and chickens.

Grasshoppers, praying mantises something like that they were so, they were so precise.

Spiders and bugs and praying mantises and yard-long centipedes, scuttling and crawling in an endless tide.

Oscaras warned us about the mantises, but I thought people would be safe in the village.