TIL Praying mantis have been known to eat hummingbirds

Sep 28, 2016 2:30 AM

Sauce

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mercury.postlight.com/amp%3furl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.audubon.org%252Fnews%252Fpraying-mantis-vs-hummingbird?client=safari

Cool pic

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Leslie Knope would be mortified.

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It's eating it's brains!

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They just made my shit list.

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How fast do you have to be to catch a hummingbird for dinner? Dayum!!

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Those preying mantis is now on my shit list!

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WTF

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That motherfucker!

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*grabs BB Gun and goes outside*

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I would kill that bug so fast. But not without uttering, "Say your Prayers, Mantis." first.

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I remember when I was growing up it illegal to kill mantids in my state. Not sure if it still is.

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Is the sense that you'd get fined. Not arrested.

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I looked up so you don't have to. It was never illegal. Smash away.

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Better link: http://www.audubon.org/news/praying-mantis-vs-hummingbird

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Ya i dont know why mine was so long

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Because it was done on a mobile device. The link you posted is supposed to cut the irrelevant content on mobile devices.

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Ooohhh

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Yeah, it's a neat bit of tech: https://www.ampproject.org/

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