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| After one minute of searching, one of the worker ants has found a praying mantis. | After five minutes,other worker ants have gathered around the giant mantis. | After ten minutes, slowly the praying mantis begins moving toward the nest. | After one hour, the mantis has been taken to the ant's nest. |
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| The mother ant sneaks under a stone or wood to make her nest. When the nest is big enough she starts laying her eggs. She lays about one egg every day. | An egg turns into larva in about twenty-five days. The larva produces a thread all by itself within ten days, it forms a white cocoon and turns into an ant-shaped pupa. |
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