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Found a praying mantis hanging off a plant eating a snake in my friends yard.
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Praying mantis really are some of the most metal of creatures.
Wtf
Slaying Mantis
I didn’t know they could do that!!
Honestly, it looks like the snake is eating the Mantis.
They are aliens on our Earth. Thank god they don’t get much larger or we’d all be goners.
another talking snake succumbing to prayer
Damn nature, you scary.
HOLY CRAP! Never knew they would eat a snake omg
Forbidden Fruit by The Foot
Keep them away from your hummingbird feeders too.
That’s a pretty amazing picture
Say your prayers, snake. Oh never mind I just did.
So does this mean it ate through bone? Cause i see no head
Looks like the upside down kiss in the first Spider Man.
If you had a high end camera I bet this picture could make national geographic!
The logistics…
/u/serpentarian, do you know what kind of snake this is?
Dang. that’s metal as all hell.
I feel like it’s against the rules for an insect to be taking out a reptile/mammal/bird in a 1v1.
I had no idea mantis’ punch so far above their weight
Idk why but “higher order” creatures being eaten by invertebrates always bothers me. Spiders eating birds, centipedes eating mice, this, etc.
This makes it even more impressive that Space Ghost was able to contain Zorak.
Let me guess, Australia?
How the fuck does a Preying Mantis catch and KILL a gawdamn snake!!
Your friend’s yard has some damn scary manti in it! I suggest you stay out before one takes a chunk out of your leg.
What a thrill
With darkness and silence through the night
What a thrill
I’m searching and I’ll melt into you
What a fear in my heart
But you’re so supreme!
I give my life
Not for honor, but for you (Snake Eater)
In my time there’ll be no one else
Crime, it’s the way I fly to you (Snake Eater)
I’m still in a dream, Snake Eater
Someday you go through the rain,
And someday you feed on a tree frog,
It’s ordeal, the trial to survive
For the day we see new light
I give my life
Not for honor, but for you (Snake Eater)
In my time there’ll be no one else
Crime, it’s the way I fly to you (Snake Eater)
I’m still in a dream, Snake Eater
I’m still in a dream, Snake Eater
Is no one gonna mention that that’s a rattle snake.
Edit: it may infact not be a rattle snake.
That’s such a beautiful creature.
I saw an epic show down between a mantis and a bird several years ago while I was out on a hike. A bird flew over head and dropped a mantis in the middle of the trail several feet ahead of me. Presumably, the bird tried to eat the mantis and the mantis forced it to let go. Undeterred, the bird swooped back for another try. This mantis straightened its back and stood tall right out in the open, waiting for the bird. The bird snatched it, but then dropped it on the side of the trail and into a pile of leaves. I could barely see the mantis because it became well camouflaged. The bird left.
I’ll never forget that mantis. I expected it to scurry out if the open and into cover, but it defended itself against an opponent several times its size and won!