a praying mantis can catch a living hummingbird and eat its brain, scientists counted 147 cases on every continent except antarctica, and more than seven in ten came from the united states, often at a backyard hummingbird feeder — here is how an insect that mostly just waits takes down a bird that weighs about three grams, and how the biggest mantises got into american gardens in the first place
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https://youtu.be/2y5OOdRfHsw
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#prayingmantis
Clips and photos under Creative Commons: Dennis.insect.filmer (BY-SA 4.0), Nesnad (BY 4.0), Fredlyfish4 (BY-SA 3.0), robin_ottawa (I'm on the phone!) [1] (BY-SA 2.0), Jason Eppink (BY 2.0), Quentin Scouflaire (BY 4.0), Dhrm77 (BY-SA 3.0), gails_pictures (Flickr) (BY 2.0), L. Shyamal (BY 4.0), Eric Kilby (BY-SA 2.0), Captain-tucker (BY-SA 3.0), jeffreyw (BY 2.0), Mike Lewinski (BY 2.0), Robert Couse-Baker (BY 2.0), Matthew T Rader (BY-SA 4.0), Judy Gallagher (BY 2.0), Christian Fritschi (BY 2.0), Lindemom1 (BY-SA 4.0), Aleks.milo (BY-SA 4.0), GRBerry, Attribution, cait.ellie (BY-SA 4.0), Ryan Hodnett (BY-SA 4.0), Tony Deise (BY-SA 4.0), Cephas (BY-SA 3.0), Becky Matsubara (BY 2.0) — tell us if a credit is missing.
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