# Hierodula *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Mar 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Paul Duggan *17 Mar 2002, 20:29* Mantis should be interested in this: I put this up on my Wolfe News Blog too, but I thought I'd mention it here. The hierodules are the aliens in the New Sun series, but I also discovered that "hierodula" is the latin genus name for the praying mantis. The hierodules are described as having compound eyes and big mandibles when they get unmasked. Interesting conection hm? Paul ---