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Title: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: voodoolily on August 30, 2007, 09:39:34 AM Holy fucking shit! (http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/mantis-hummer.aspx)
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Signe on August 30, 2007, 09:52:16 AM I've never seen anything like that. I didn't even know it could happen! I'd put a collar around that thing and name him Spike.
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Bunk on August 30, 2007, 09:54:16 AM While I'll be damded. I think you have just added another insect to my I don't fucking want to meet list.
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: voodoolily on August 30, 2007, 10:01:46 AM The one in our yard is pertneer big enough to do that. We love him though.
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: HaemishM on August 30, 2007, 12:04:40 PM Is Praying Mantis gon' have ta choke a bitch?
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Ironwood on August 30, 2007, 12:33:28 PM Heh. He said Hummer.
(Seriously, that's scary shit.) Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Righ on August 30, 2007, 06:30:36 PM (http://www.fantascienza.com/cinema/mantide-omicida/media/Mantis.jpg)
Its only a matter of time. Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Murgos on August 30, 2007, 07:15:12 PM In North America insects eat birds!
</yakov> Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: WindupAtheist on August 30, 2007, 09:55:04 PM The largest mantis on record was 18 inches long. Oh, and they also sometimes fly. But only at night. Fun.
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Stephen Zepp on August 30, 2007, 11:24:35 PM Vu ja Deh--didn't we see this before? I even thought it was from Voodoo :(
Nonetheless, you go, bug! Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: voodoolily on August 31, 2007, 09:39:27 AM I have never seen or posted this before. I did post a photo of our resident mantis on my pitcher plant in the hort thread, but this was odd enough to warrant its own thread (I thought).
Seriously, I sent this link around to the wildlife biologists in my office, and none of them had seen or heard of such a thing happening. They were shocked, SHOCKED! Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Stephen Zepp on August 31, 2007, 09:45:39 AM I have never seen or posted this before. I did post a photo of our resident mantis on my pitcher plant in the hort thread, but this was odd enough to warrant its own thread (I thought). Seriously, I sent this link around to the wildlife biologists in my office, and none of them had seen or heard of such a thing happening. They were shocked, SHOCKED! that's so wierd, hehe...I must have stumbled across it elsewhere via pre-coffee random clicking some morning. Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Signe on August 31, 2007, 10:11:44 AM The insect world is so fucking bad ass.
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Gutboy Barrelhouse on September 01, 2007, 02:08:22 PM The insects look to be going for human sized game now, we are all doomed!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003861683_web31.html Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Johny Cee on September 01, 2007, 11:47:54 PM "Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."
Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: stu on September 03, 2007, 02:31:54 PM You can order your own praying mantis eggs and raise them in a terrarium! Then set them loose outside as a sort of garden warden. It's loads of fun. Sounds almost like a game.
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/praying-mantis-egg-cases.html (http://www.planetnatural.com/site/praying-mantis-egg-cases.html) Title: Re: Hummingbird gets pwned by praying mantis. Post by: Signe on September 03, 2007, 02:50:18 PM Praying Mantis v Hummingbird fighting... might be a bit of dosh in that idea.
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