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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts) Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:14 PM Nov 2013

Praying Mantis needs to get some tartar sauce....

http://imgur.com/0EiX9CX

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Praying Mantis needs to get some tartar sauce.... (Original Post) WillParkinson Nov 2013 OP

Eek! tblue Nov 2013 #1

Wasabi! immoderate Nov 2013 #2

Far Out! JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #3

I thought I'd seen it all enlightenment Nov 2013 #4

tblue

(16,350 posts)

1. Eek!

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:16 PM

Nov 2013

I'm a vegetarian so I cringe. Poor fishy. But that's pretty wild!

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

2. Wasabi!

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:20 PM

Nov 2013

--imm

JimboBillyBubbaBob

(1,389 posts)

3. Far Out!

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:22 PM

Nov 2013

Nothing else to say. Some years ago I was out in the garage. This huge mantis grabs up this spider with his front mitts and, while rotating the body, clips the legs off with his mandibles. Next, he sat there and ate the spider body, about the diameter of a dime, like he was munching on a burger. But this guy, catching a fish, now that's ambition.

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

4. I thought I'd seen it all

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:31 PM

Nov 2013

when I actually observed the "bite the head off the male after sex" thing.

This beats that by a mile. I will never look at a Mantis the same way, ever again.

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