Grisly video shows praying mantis eating brain of a murder hornet (Oh, gnarly!)

NY Post ^ | May 7, 2020 | Lee Brown

[DoodleBob]

[Chicory]

Giant Asian Hornet

Surely that’s racist and that’s why they are now called murder hornets?

[Songcraft]

"Got a minute, horny?   I'd like to pick your brain."

[CraigEsq]

If someone who knows how could post a picture of the old sci-fi movie “The Deadly Mantis,” it would be appropriate.

[Pelham]

[Pelham]

[ConservativeMind]

That’s the one!

Absolutely amazing. Just amazing.

[Conserv]

That shot of the half eaten head of the wasp was beyond NASTY.

[BradyLS]

I think it’s a riff on “killer bees.”

I think “tiger-head bee” (what they call ‘em in Asia) or “tiger hornet” is menacing enough.

[BradyLS]

Some things must be seen to be believed. There are some spiders that can do it, too.

[BradyLS]

“Heeyyy! Nothin’ personal! It’s just business!”

[Lou L]

Fauci is saying that praying mantis are ineffective, and there are no empirical data supporting them as a solution to the murder hornets...

[georgiegirl]

Wow! Thanks for posting the picture of preying Mantis sucking brain of hummingbird. I have seen this with my own eyes, just didn’t have a camera to take a quick pic of this amazing “lunch”.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

At least the mantis said his prayers before having dinner. He obviously was NOT a Democrat mantis

[DoodleBob]

The Bee was obviously a Dem.

[Ken H]

I got a bunch of Praying Mantis cocoons from Burpee Seeds one year. They were all over the garden that summer.

[Ken H]

Sometimes the hornet wins => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOdRvLwUpFY

[EinNYC]

If I found a mantis hurting a hummer, I’d add a splat of green on the wall.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Yes, the Bee was a Democrat because it read the Sacramento Bee, not the Babylon Bee.

The mantis was sing “Won’t you be my baby/neighbor/meal” while he was having dinner.

[Pelham]

A hummer got stuck under a mesh umbrella on my patio. Since he could see sky through it he kept trying to fly up, instead of down and out. The bird was getting tired. I held my hand up to him, he hopped on a finger, and I took him out to where he could fly away.

The little suckers are really territorial, especially the Rufous, and they will get right in your face to encourage you to leave their yard.