During the halt, we bathed in the waters, upon whose banks were a multitude of huge Mantidae, pink and tender green.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Other Mantidae, of the genus Gongylus, have the anterior part of the thorax dilated and coloured either white, pink, or purple; and they so closely resemble flowers that, according to Mr. Wood-Mason, one of them, having a bright violet-blue prothoracic shield, was found in Pegu by a botanist, and was for a moment mistaken by him for a flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

A multitude of huge Mantidae, pink and tender green.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Mantidae resembling flowers, 212.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Mantidae, both persecuted and persecutors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference