Textual research comes from Compendium of Materia Medica: Mantis, with her head bent on her arm, her neck and abdomen repaired, and her second-hand quadruped. Fortunately, she needs to change her nose. In late autumn, the milk is made into a house, and the branches are glued, that is, cricket. This room is an inch long and as big as a thumb. There are many compartments in it, and there are children like maggots in each room. Eggs come out together after Mango Festival. So there are clouds in the month sequence, and mantis is born in midsummer. Mantis, not used in ancient times, only used Puji recipe (press: it should be "Shengji Zonglu") to treat convulsions, which was used in the method of blowing nose to calm convulsions, and also meant to cover silkworms and scorpions. Ancient wind medicine is mostly used to treat wind, and mantis is the same principle to treat wind.
Source: Chinese Materia Medica
Except polar regions, they are widely distributed all over the world, especially in tropical regions. There are about 1585 species known in the world. About 5 1 species is known in China. Among them, southern mantis, northern mantis, broad-axe mantis, Chinese mantis, European mantis and green-spotted mantis are important natural enemies of pests in agriculture, forests, fruit trees and ornamental plants in China.