Praying Mantis

The Praying Mantis is a Mythical creature that arrived with the Animal Update, and despite living in this mutation list it behaves as a pet rather than a fruit modifier. You pull it by hatching the Bug Egg at a 4% chance, which makes it one of the scarcer drops in that egg pool. Its row carries no sell multiplier, so it does not directly stamp a value bonus onto produce the way a weather mutation like Wet or Chilled does.

Its real lever is the huge 55,000 hunger bar, which signals a long active-buff duration before it needs refeeding. Mantis-type bugs in Grow a Garden typically grant crop-growth or mutation-assist effects while active, so the long hunger pool means more uptime per feed cycle and steadier passive value across a full harvest rotation.

Is it worth chasing? At 4% the grind is real but not punishing, and as a Mythical it pairs well in any pet loadout aimed at speeding mutations rather than multiplying a single fruit. Treat it as infrastructure, not a jackpot: it raises your farm's overall throughput instead of spiking one crop's price.