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| Orchid Mantis | |
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| Scientific Name | Hymenopus coronatus |
| Appearances | Animal Crossing: Wild World Animal Crossing: City Folk |
| Location | Resting upon white flowers. |
| Date Availability | April - November |
| Time Availability | 8am - 5pm |
| Sales Price | 2,400 Bells |
| Size | 35mm |
The Orchid Mantis is one of the two mantises available in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk.
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[edit] How to Catch
The Orchid Mantis is quite rarer than the regular Mantis, bearing a unique appearance and higher selling price. Given these facts, this bug can only be seldomly found on white-coloured flowers planted throughout your Town and no other breed. Caution and reflexes are required when approaching such a specimen for the final catch.
[edit] Player
This is what your player says when you catch a Orchid Mantis:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
I caught an orchid mantis! It hunts in flowers!
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
I caught an orchid mantis! I kid you not, man!
[edit] Menu
When looking at the Orchid Mantis in the bug menu it will say this:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
These pretty critters look like orchids, so it's difficult for predators to spot them.
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
These critters look like orchids, so it's hard for predators to locate them.
[edit] Museum
If you donate this bug to the Museum, Blathers will say this:
[edit] Animal Crossing: Wild World
Ah, the orchid mantis fools other insects by looking like a flower, eh wot? Bugs approach for nectar... CHOMP! The mantis attacks! It shan't fool me, though! Just look at it! Can't you see the antennae twitching? Blech! Duplicitous wretch!
[edit] Animal Crossing: City Folk
The orchid mantis has the awful habit of disquising itself as a flower in order to avoid its enemies. ...I say "awful" because of how revolting it is to touch a flower and feel the belly of a mantis! Oh, it was so soft and vile! Blech! The memories! I try to suppress them, but they always come flooding back!
[edit] Real Life
In real life, the Orchid Mantis actually dwells on the Orchid flower since it can use it's physiology to blend in with the plant as a defense mechanism. They're native to rainforests located in Indonesia and bugs such as bees and lizards are their natural prey.
