A praying mantis eating a cockroach. This video has been shot by Ahmad Eddeeb in Alexandria - Egypt using a Canon Powershot A610.
Mantodea or mantises is an order of insects which contains approximately 2,200 species in 9 families worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. Most of the species are in the family Mantidae. Historically, the term "mantid" was used to refer to any member of the order because for most of the past century, only one family was recognized within the order; technically, however, the term only refers to this one family, meaning the species in the other eight recently-established families are not mantids, by definition (i.e., they are empusids, or hymenopodids, etc.), and the term "mantises" should be used when referring to the entire order. A colloquial name for the order is "praying mantises", because of the typical "prayer-like" stance, although the term is often mis-spelled as "preying mantis" since mantises are notoriously predatory. The word mantis is Greek for "prophet" or "fortune teller". In Europe, the name "praying mantis" refers to only a single species, Mantis religiosa. The closest relatives of mantises are the orders Isoptera (termites) and Blattodea (cockroaches), and these three groups together are sometimes ranked as an order rather than a superorder. They are sometimes confused with phasmids (stick/leaf insects) and other elongated insects such as grasshoppers and crickets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_mantis
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idcaboutnamedude 19 hours ago
He went out a warrior
AnimalWhispererify 3 days ago
@GlobeRefresh Fuck that!
Overd0seOfDeath 3 days ago
Ah dude he was twitching until the bitter end. Imagine being munched on like that but not being able to scream.
GlobeRefresh 3 days ago
survive that bitch!!!
MindTrek00 4 days ago
Like a Big Mac!
sweetkees 4 days ago
the cockroach look sooo juicy this video makes me hungry
southprk76 5 days ago
The COCKroach was still alive while being eaten :(
XxSlimyJimxX 6 days ago
There is no "...vs Praying Mantis": they dine well on whatever they meet!!
VikingRaider 1 week ago
Poor cockrouch :(
kassie5167810 1 week ago