8/13/2005: Praying mantis kills hummingbird

Undertoad · 08-13-2005, 12:56 PM

A Saturday special? I guess. Boing Boing finds this item from Birdwatchers Digest, in which this gruesome scene is captured. West Chester PA native Richard Walkup describes it thusly:

As you can see from the photographs this hungry mantis captured and killed a hummingbird not much smaller than itself. The mantis used its spiny left foreleg to impale the hummingbird through the chest while leaving his right leg free.

We surmised that the mantis ran the hummer through and dangled its full weight on its foreleg while he consumed the flesh of the hummingbird from the abdomen. After he had his fill, the mantis gave his foreleg several swift jerks and freed his leg.

Ew. But totally amazing.

08-13-2005, 12:56 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	8/13/2005: Praying mantis kills hummingbird A Saturday special? I guess. Boing Boing finds this item from Birdwatchers Digest, in which this gruesome scene is captured. West Chester PA native Richard Walkup describes it thusly: As you can see from the photographs this hungry mantis captured and killed a hummingbird not much smaller than itself. The mantis used its spiny left foreleg to impale the hummingbird through the chest while leaving his right leg free. We surmised that the mantis ran the hummer through and dangled its full weight on its foreleg while he consumed the flesh of the hummingbird from the abdomen. After he had his fill, the mantis gave his foreleg several swift jerks and freed his leg. Ew. But totally amazing.

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