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Grisly video shows praying mantis eating brain of a murder hornet (Oh, gnarly!)
NY Post ^ | May 7, 2020 | Lee Brown

Posted on 05/07/2020 7:30:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Praying may save us from murder hornets after all.

Wild video posted online shows a giant Asian hornet finally meeting its match: a brain-gobbling praying mantis.

The clip starts with the mantis completely still as its five eyes patiently watch the hornet — an insect that can grow to 2 inches long, is known to kill up to 50 people a year in Japan, and recently arrived in the US.

The mantis suddenly springs forward with its long, modified front legs, keeping a vise-like grip on the doomed hornet, which twists and tries to turn its head in feeble attempts to put up a fight.

The long-legged carnivore then starts pecking away at the hornet — eventually eating its head and brains.

“Thank you for this nightmare,” remarked one Twitter user of the video posted online, which had been viewed almost 160,000 times by Thursday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bugs; chat; murderhornet; prayingmantis
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1 posted on 05/07/2020 7:30:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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Start with the eye and go for the brain...


2 posted on 05/07/2020 7:32:34 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Pelham

Well, if you go deep enough in somebody’s eye, you *will* change their mind.

Time to start breeding mantises! :)


3 posted on 05/07/2020 7:34:59 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: DoodleBob

Imagine one six feet tall. Now imagine it’s a divorce attorney. Thus endeth the lesson.


4 posted on 05/07/2020 7:35:20 PM PDT by katana
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To: Retrofitted

“Time to start breeding mantises! :)”

Definitely!

I found one that was easily 5”. I think he was stalking the hummingbirds.


5 posted on 05/07/2020 7:38:11 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: DoodleBob

It’s going to get mad hornet disease eating those brains.


6 posted on 05/07/2020 7:41:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- “First thing I’d do is repeal those Trump tax cuts.” (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Pelham

Well, there you have it. The Next Great Media-Generated Panic, nipped in the bud. Literally. :-)

On a side note, I personally think the name “murder hornets” sounds kind of stupid.


7 posted on 05/07/2020 7:43:03 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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I think the Mantis got the upper hand because he attacked it from the rear. I’ve seen the hornet kill the Mantis in a head to head battle. The hornet used its mandibles to decapitate the Mantis. The Hornets stinger is a killer too.


8 posted on 05/07/2020 7:43:04 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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i saw this earlier..total bad ass mantis...i used to catch them as a kid. ..very rad.


9 posted on 05/07/2020 7:44:26 PM PDT by basalt (a.m.)
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To: katana

The deadly mantis
https://youtu.be/KDwEtF67Kg8


10 posted on 05/07/2020 7:46:35 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: DoodleBob

Works good one on one on a tabletop. Lets see a PM against a nest of the phuckers!


11 posted on 05/07/2020 7:49:01 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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Praying Mantids are awesome. I used to raise them when my Sons were young.

My ultimate goal was to breed them to be about seven feet tall and place them on our southern border.


12 posted on 05/07/2020 7:49:15 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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The hornet is still trying to when its head has been almost entirely devoured - interesting.


13 posted on 05/07/2020 7:53:01 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AFB-XYZ
Well, if they don't find some way to sell stories they gotta learn how to code.

Here is the two+ minute video of this bitchin' saga.

14 posted on 05/07/2020 7:55:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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15 posted on 05/07/2020 7:55:11 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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I noticed that, too....even after the head had been devoured...sort of like how certain people keep voting after dying.


16 posted on 05/07/2020 7:57:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: AFB-XYZ

i knew abput these a decade ago.

They were not called ‘murder’ hornets

They were labeled Giant Asain hornets.


17 posted on 05/07/2020 7:57:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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What richard head in the media decided to call them murder hornets?


18 posted on 05/07/2020 8:12:36 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“They were labeled Giant Asain hornets.”

It’s an infinitely better name than “murder hornets”. :-)


19 posted on 05/07/2020 8:12:38 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: Pelham

One was found eating an in-air caught hummingbird.


20 posted on 05/07/2020 8:16:39 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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