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.
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Guess we need to encourage the population of Praying Mantis to get rid of the killer Chinese hornets.
It was called soemthing in Japanese that translates as “great sparrow bee”. And then in 2008 on Japanese media started getting called murder hornet.
Lol
As long as they never developed thumbs, we'd be OK. I live in terror of the day when cats develop opposable thumbs. We'd be doomed.
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