Praying Mantis vs Killer Hornet
Jun 1, 2020 16:36:20 #
Jun 1, 2020 16:44:21 #
Peewee wrote:
Praying mantis are some bad hombre's....saw one a couple years back take a humming bird out of my pear tree, had to move the humming bird feeder to,prevent that from happening again. Quite impressive it was.
Jun 1, 2020 19:33:32 #
Weewillynobeerspilly wrote:
Praying mantis are some bad hombre's....saw one a couple years back take a humming bird out of my pear tree, had to move the humming bird feeder to,prevent that from happening again. Quite impressive it was.
I try and attract them to our garden. They are great for those damn squash bugs.
Jun 1, 2020 19:39:43 #
Smedley_buzkill wrote:
I try and attract them to our garden. They are great for those damn squash bugs.
Ive never seen them eat anything, just come and suck sugar water from that fake ass strawberry dangling from the tree....and only in the mornings, 7ish...flutter about, suck a little of that nectar and gone.
Jun 2, 2020 07:52:12 #
billy a
Loc: South Florida
Peewee wrote:
Random chance my foot...God makes some pretty efficient critters.
Jun 2, 2020 14:01:31 #
Peewee wrote:
I have no sympathy for giant hornets, but this sure looks like an unfair fight to me. The hornet looks like it is incapacitated and was being fed to the mantis. I have actually seen mantises kill and eat small wasps, however I think all things being equal, the giant hornet probably would kill a mantis.
Jun 2, 2020 14:12:55 #
TexaCan
Loc: Homeward Bound!
Peewee wrote:
Yum! Yum!
I wonder if he needed a Tums after his snack!😂
Jun 2, 2020 16:35:04 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
billy a wrote:
Random chance my foot...God makes some pretty efficient critters.
I agree! Everything was made for a purpose.
Jun 2, 2020 16:50:49 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
son of witless wrote:
I have no sympathy for giant hornets, but this sure looks like an unfair fight to me. The hornet looks like it is incapacitated and was being fed to the mantis. I have actually seen mantises kill and eat small wasps, however I think all things being equal, the giant hornet probably would kill a mantis.
I guess that's a possibility, but he used some great opening ninja moves. He put a leg lock on the stinger and messed with the hornet's eyes. I'm sure a few praying mantises have lost, probably mostly the young or old. But that's also a part of life and death. The world is a vicious place. Most things kill to survive, even plants.
Jun 2, 2020 17:15:15 #
Peewee wrote:
I guess that's a possibility, but he used some great opening ninja moves. He put a leg lock on the stinger and messed with the hornet's eyes. I'm sure a few praying mantises have lost, probably mostly the young or old. But that's also a part of life and death. The world is a vicious place. Most things kill to survive, even plants.
A mantis is an ambush predator. It relies on being undetected. In the wild, if it can hide, and come from behind as the video mantis did, that is all well and good. If you observe in the video, the Giant Hornet is just sitting in front of the Praying Mantis, apparently waiting to be eaten. In the wild, it would be actively hunting. If it detected the mantis, I am pretty sure it would easily overwhelm it.
Somebody put these two together and shot a video. The mantis is sitting out in the open and not camouflaged. The hornet normally should have seen it. Why would a hornet just sit there unless something had been done to it. I have no idea how you would disable a hornet and keep it alive. Maybe with a whiff of CO2.
Jun 2, 2020 17:20:35 #
son of witless wrote:
A mantis is an ambush predator. It relies on being... (show quote)
Smoke...or lower its temperature by placing it in the fridge, i used temperature to take the fight out of many reptiles to work on them, hornets, bees and wasps have a cool weather restrictions also
Jun 2, 2020 17:33:38 #
Weewillynobeerspilly wrote:
Smoke...or lower its temperature by placing it in the fridge, i used temperature to take the fight out of many reptiles to work on them, hornets, bees and wasps have a cool weather restrictions also
Do you see what I see ? This hornet is not acting normal. I say this wasn't a fair fight. Again I am not whining over the death of an insect, but when I see a fight, I want to know if it was real. The low temperature would work.
Jun 2, 2020 21:32:13 #
son of witless wrote:
I have no sympathy for giant hornets, but this sure looks like an unfair fight to me. The hornet looks like it is incapacitated and was being fed to the mantis. I have actually seen mantises kill and eat small wasps, however I think all things being equal, the giant hornet probably would kill a mantis.
Depends who got the drop on who. In this video they are both in a box, an extremely artificial environment, and the hornet really looks like he was stunned before being dropped into the box.
Jun 3, 2020 03:23:13 #
son of witless wrote:
Do you see what I see ? This hornet is not acting normal. I say this wasn't a fair fight. Again I am not whining over the death of an insect, but when I see a fight, I want to know if it was real. The low temperature would work.
I did see it also, the hornet was definitely not active as it should have been, even after it was grabbed it didn't seem normal.
Jun 4, 2020 08:09:40 #
I put a praying mantis in a shoebox with a garden spider and closed it. After 5 minutes I reopened it and found the spider flat as a pancake and the many is licking itself clean.
Yummy!!!
Yummy!!!
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