Category: Diet & Eating Habits

YOU might be wondering as to how can a praying mantis eat a hummingbird perhaps because mantis is an insect and hummingbird is a bird. And scientists haven’t witnessed an insect feeding on a bird alive. But it’s true that praying mantis do eat hummingbird. They are voracious meat-eaters. The relationship between the praying mantis…

Praying mantis isn’t only the deadliest of predators—it’s the most efficient too. Once it gets hold of the prey the victim is less likely to escape death. Praying mantis bites the head off the prey then followed by the rest of the body. This is the rule of thumb for eating lunch. Even so, the…

Praying mantises are ferocious animals in the world of insects. They are pure carnivores so much so that they sometimes consume their counterparts. However, most of the mantis’ diet consists of small animals such as grasshoppers, crickets, butterflies, and beetles. Praying mantises can also kill hummingbirds and snakes but these are not the essential part…

There’s no denying that praying mantis demonstrates cannibalism particularly in mating. That is to say that female mantis consumes her mating partner right after the mating. However, the sexual cannibalism is just a little too complex as females don’t always eat the male. They are probably either too hungry to feed on their partner or…