Reddit reviews The Praying Mantids

Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but you're unlikely to get your research published until you've proven yourself to be an expert in the field, e.g. have a relevant university degree. I mean, that's what peer review is - a critical analysis of your research by other experts. If you've never been through the peer review process, it's an incredibly brutal process (at least in the medical field, and I hope that is the same in entomology). Most studies do not get published because they are poorly conducted, and if they do, it's in some low impact journal.

To get an idea of how mantis research is conducted, here is a good introduction. Then you'll want to start reading actual studies (and there are entire university courses just on how to read, analyze, dissect, understand, and critique studies, so when people tell me they read studies, 99% of the time, I laugh at their overconfidence and insult to science). You should also enlist the help of methodologists too so when your research is peer reviewed, you won't outright get rejected for poor methodology.