only to discover it's a bug instead! A repulsive revelation indeed!" Capture quotes " I caught an orchid mantis! It hunts in flowers!" - Wild World " I caught an orchid mantis! I kid you not, man!" - City Folk " I caught an orchid mantis! My eyes see all!" - New Leaf " I caught an orchid mantis! Our friendship is blooming!" - New HorizonsĮncyclopedia information Wild World And makes a meal of them instead! Imagine! To behold a beautiful bud. But oh this fraudulent flower! It lures other insects in to drink its nectar. This masterful mimicry allows it to hide from predators in among the orchids. "The orchid mantis is a bug whose brilliant colors and petal-shaped limbs give it the look of a flower. When either donating to the museum or selecting "Tell me more about this!", Blathers the curator will say (with abhorrence): They are usually carnivorous, but they still eat the occasional banana to balance their vitamin intake." In New Horizons
While this camouflage keeps them safe, is also helps them to surprise any prey that comes to the flowers. "Orchid mantises look like orchids and use them as camouflage for protection from predators. The orchid mantis is found on the central white pansy, amongst the butterflies, on the lower tier of the bug room.Īn information board in the bug exhibit will list information about this bug: "The orchid mantis has the awful habit of disguising 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!" It can be found on the bottom white rose in the row of flowers on the right of the first room, with the butterflies.īlathers, the curator of the museum, talks of his own experiences with an orchid mantis: CHOMP! The mantis attacks! It shan't fool me, though! Just look at it! Can't you see the antennae twitching? Blech! Duplicitous wretch!" "Ah, the orchid mantis fools other insects by looking like a flower, eh wot? Bugs approach for nectar. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Reviewīlathers speaks about the orchid mantis' camouflage:
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