Praying Mantis VS Hummingbirds.mpg

This is a video of A bout between A Praying Mantis and Hummiingbirds at my feeders. I had no idea just how vicious A praying Mantis could be.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Praying mantis
• Mantidae
• mantid
• Sphodromantis viridis
• insect
• preying mantis
• predator
• predatory
• prey
• carnivorous insects
• wildlife
• attacking
• arthropod
• creature
• Entomology
• pwalpar
• Georgia
• Griffin GA
• Birds
• hummingbirds
• humming birds
• bird feeder
• birding
• bird watching
• wild birds
• nature
• ruby throated
• black chinned
• fighting

[Thefallen32000]

Humming bird was fighting an other bird

[pwalpar]

If you watched closely you would see the mantis yanking a mouthfull of feathersLOL The humming birds are constantly fighting each other

[nysh35]

wait did u really kill the praying mantis jw?

[pwalpar]

LOL Yep I squashed him with a flip flop LOL

[pwalpar]

Thanks Pat, they are quite vicious

[AlmightyMacky]

that mantis is hilarious!

[pwalpar]

Thanks,  I am glad you liked it

[Thefallen32000]

And the mantis was minding its own bussness

[nysh35]

@pwalpar lol i thought u were gonna keep him alive and like idk put a humming bird and him in a box 2 c wat happend but hay he was a mean bug but he had balls for tryin to kill a bird so respect the bug lmao :D

[foxx21000]

you are stupid my praying mantis won because he got the humming bird

[Tstormer]

well done here walter@! lmao at the beginning.! I like em both. Seen pics of mantids getting hummers before, but never seen it. woa it almost got one.