Mantis Spotter’s Pack

A mantis spotter’s pack for ages 6+: a ten-item checklist, a camouflage hunt, a sightings record sheet, a where-mantises-live page, a mantis-or-look-alike page and a field notebook cover, with an answer key.

What’s inside:

- How to be a mantis spotter (five tips, and the facts behind them)

- Ten things to spot: a checklist of eight mantises, an egg case and a nymph

- Camouflage hunt: how many mantises are hiding?

- Record sheet: my mantis sightings

- Where mantises live: Europe, North America, Australia, Asia, and Britain and the Isle of Man

- Mantis or look-alike? Four animals that fool people

- Field notebook cover

- Notes and sketches page

- Answer key

- Picture credits

- Credits, licence & help

Pages: 12 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages (including the Amateur Entomologists’ Society, the Natural History Museum in London, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum, Newcastle University, NC State Extension, Utah State University Extension, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Britannica and peer-reviewed research; checked 31 Oct 2026), and the sources are listed on each pack’s credits page. Facts that can change, such as species counts and ranges, are printed with that date. Where sources give different figures, every figure is shown with its source. Photos are public domain or CC0 images via Wikimedia Commons; drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Not endorsed by any of these organisations.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind mantises.critters.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.