Let me introduce a new category on my blog – Amazing Creation. As the description says (mouse over the Amazing Creation link and wait a while), posts grouped under here will focus on the really COOL living things I’ve found out about.
Apart from that, some of the life forms have adaptations or behaviour that is so complex, you really have to stretch the bounds of Darwinistic, Naturalistic evolution to explain it!
For my first offering, here is something I found at this bird watching site.
WARNING! WARNING! Emmeline and like-minded cute-animal lovers should not look at the below pictures.
You have been warned!
Look out!
Here it comes!
Eh, don’t blame me, I told you NOT to look :p Y
Yes, that is a hummingbird that got speared by a praying mantis! Said mantis managed to score a critical strike that ignored target’s armour rating, then proceeds to eat the hummer while hanging upside down – the bird’s full weight still on the mantis’ claw.
So now you know that mantids not only look scary, they ARE scary!
PLUS: A whole collection of other mantis-kill-bird pics can be found at this page. Use Google Translate which can auto detect the lamguage as Spanish and translate it to pretty understandable English.
Tags: hummingbird, praying mantis, praying mantis kill hummingbird
THE SCOTTTCAST 
January 6, 07 at 4:24 am
Wow, Great Pics!
January 8, 07 at 8:25 am
Thanks! Credit isn’t due to me, but to the link I provided and the guy who actually took the pics.
December 2, 08 at 6:56 am
i found a praying mantis that ate my friend.
December 2, 08 at 9:18 am
What was your friend, an insect, a bird, a small mammal, or a descendant of Tom Thumb? lol
August 13, 09 at 6:09 pm
great nature pics!
August 30, 09 at 12:38 am
That was awesome. Recently took photos of 2 males breeding on large female. She ate one male later. Awesome
August 30, 09 at 12:46 am
Blog them up, or send them in to http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/
September 7, 09 at 1:06 am
[…] que podría parecernos insólita, está bien documentada en la Red, donde podemos encontrar varias imágenes e información sobre ataques de mantis a pájaros, especialmente colibríes que, por su tamaño, […]
November 7, 09 at 3:25 am
i COULD NOT BELEIVE WHAT I WAS SEEING ON THE PIC BUT I THINK INSECTS ARE THE MOST AMAZING CREATURES ON EARTH AND THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DOING TOO MUCH HARM AND THAT`S WHY THEY HAVE BEEN KEPT IN SMALL SIZE, THANKS GOD!! AMAZING PICS MAN, THUMBS UP FROM MEXICO!!
January 16, 10 at 10:51 pm
I know someone who deserves to be eateh by a praying mantis, could you tell me where to get one that weighs around 115Kg. ?
February 19, 10 at 12:49 am
I hope it is not true, from now on I wont sleep!
May 26, 10 at 3:11 am
Awesome picture!
quote: “Yes, that is a hummingbird that got speared by a praying mantis! Said mantis managed to score a critical strike that ignored target’s armour rating, then proceeds to eat the hummer while hanging upside down – the bird’s full weight still on the mantis’ claw.”
I just have to ask: current or ex-WOW player?
May 26, 10 at 10:06 am
Lessee… Never played WoW (Monthly payments? Bah!). But crits and armour also apply to Baldur’s Gate, Planescape Torment, Warcraft 3 (Blademaster), Fallout 1-3 and Tactics, Diablo 2, Titan Quest and Torchlight which I have played…
February 18, 13 at 10:01 am
[…] que podría parecernos insólita, está bien documentada en la Red, donde podemos encontrar varias imágenes e información sobre ataques de mantis a pájaros, especialmente colibríes que, por su tamaño, […]
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