Comments on: Mighty Mantes

By: fvngvs

fvngvs — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:55:13 +0000

Now, THAT is one well-fed mantis!

Thanks for the pointer, Tink.
(And no, I still haven’t read all the previous articles. Give me time. And pie.)

By: DanThinksDances&femaleGspot

DanThinksDances&femaleGspot — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:36:07 +0000

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I am a praying mantis and your representation is pretty correct. Let us prey for…

By: Merciless

Merciless — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:08:21 +0000

Great photo’s. My mother-in-law stumbled onto a “nest” from a female and there had to been a hundred little mantes’ everywhere. No they weren’t squished afterward. Actually we gathered the little buggers up and put them back in “they’re” habitat.

By: Tink

Tink — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:29:03 +0000

Scroll down the first page and check out the banana trees, cool pics, and something I’ve never seen before..DI! Love mantises, the females have it right on, LOL (JK)

By: A-Train72

A-Train72 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:52:31 +0000

holy crap thats cool!

By: PERKY_NIHILIST

PERKY_NIHILIST — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:18:14 +0000

Wow! Those pics of the kill were amazing. I will be sure to share this info with my boys… up until now, the bird eating spider has got all of their attention.

By: Bryan Lowder

Bryan Lowder — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:36:00 +0000

Praying mantises are cool. One tore up my buddy’s thumb when I was a kid. Years later, we captured one late in the season, and fed it bits of chicken by hand. It was a voracious eater. Lest people get to disliking them, remember that mantids are, of course, excellent at keeping down the population of bad insects.

As for hummingbirds… When I was in high school, I read something saying that hummingbirds are not territorial. My sweet little granny disagreed. Her feeder was popular with the local birds, and they were agressive against ANYTHING that threatened their spot, including things that massed ten thousand times what they did. They would kind of do this threatening dive that was intimidating– how did you know they weren’t going to stab your eye out with that pointy beak of theirs?