Hello everyone, this is Fei'er's cottage. Today, let's get to know the horror killer of the animal kingdom, the mantis brother known as the "shadowless knife"! Anyone who has seen the video of the mantis dueling with many animals knows that the precision and speed with which they hunt their prey is simply unbelievable, who would believe that an insect can kill a bird? Wouldn't that be strange to you? But I tell you, praying mantises are real killing machines, and they not only kill their own kind with extreme kinks, but they also hunt birds and snakes, and sometimes even fight with cats. What makes the little mantis so fearless and bloodthirsty to kill, I will take you to understand this little mantis brother.
In general, nature's food chain seems very logical and easy to be understood and accepted. You see, when I was a kid, my friends who played the game "Who Eats Whom" know that cats catch mice, mice eat elephants, and lizards eat insects, right? This is normal, but this law does not apply to the praying mantis, and its best defense is to attack, and not only pure offense, but also a full meal! Everyone is generally shocked to see the lizard, it looks like a miniature version of the dinosaur, originally the lizard was to take the small mantis for lunch, but not only did not eat it, but also was caught by the praying mantis. The mantis made a rapid and accurate attack at the first time, and it used its sickle-like forefoot to clamp the head of the lizard, so that it could not close its upper and lower jaws, so that the praying mantis could start eating the lizard, but also eat fresh. Even if the lizard escapes the first round of attack, it will not be able to save itself, the mantis will kill the lizard lock throat in a fighting siege, who told it to offend the famous mantis killer! Hey!
Praying mantises are definitely the rulers of the insect world, and their forefoots are like deadly machetes, usually clamping their prey tightly together, and it seems that it can catch any prey. Mantises usually take ambushes to prey, and they blend perfectly with leaves and bark before catching the prey with lightning-fast "mantis fists". It is said that the speed of the praying mantis punch is 10 times the speed of human blinking, and it can hit the prey with only 1/20 of the speed.
The praying mantis has the most perfect body structure in the insect world, which makes it the most fearless killer. Their triangular head sits on their long necks, and the head can also be rotated 180 degrees to scan their surroundings, which can help them easily find their prey. The praying mantis has two large compound eyes, each of which is composed of thousands of small eyes, and this set of organs is like a superb speedometer, which can calculate the movement speed of the prey, and no single action will be ignored! Let's talk about how terrible the two large sickles of the praying mantis are, creatures born with double knives, you think about how fierce it is, like a great white shark with jagged teeth. The praying mantis has this unique weapon, and does not care about the size of the prey, whether it is a fly, a cockroach, or other insects, all of which are the dish of the praying mantis.
What is even more incredible is that this insect can eat its own kind, the most famous example is the infamous "reproductive cannibalism" phenomenon, adult female praying mantises generally bite off the head of male mantises during moderate hunger mating, sometimes after mating, sometimes in mating, for female mantises, male mantises are just a good meal, and eating them like this can not prevent them from giving birth, which is too perverted!
There are also praying mantises that prey on snakes, of course we are not talking about pythons, but praying mantises do attack small snakes. It can use the larger spacing of its hind legs to maintain the stability of the body, and then it will launch a fierce and rapid attack, if the small snake does not move fast enough, it will be defeated by the praying mantis. The little snake must not have seen how the praying mantis attacked the lizard, the insect knew exactly what they were doing, its every move and every attempt was calculated, its ultimate goal was to try to hit the head of the prey, and once the head was caught, the praying mantis would shout to eat!
So who else but snakes are on the long menu of praying mantises? It's rats, even though they're only the size of mantises. For the little mouse, it is impossible to resist the mantis's deadly scythe, and the powerful forefoot can easily hold the prey, what else can the little mouse do? It's a mantis snack! In the process of eating, the little mouse is still twitching, but the mantis brother does not care at all, has begun to eat dinner, do not be upset! (Bloody is not above)
Praying mantises are sometimes used by people for pest control work, generally there are praying mantises, you do not have to worry about the invasion of rats or pests, but they will not be "picky eaters", whether it is beneficial insect pests will be eaten by them. Okay, now back to the poor bird before the article began, now you can believe that this is indeed the feat of the praying mantis, and it is definitely a typical hunting process, just like the lions on the prairie hunt their prey, and the praying mantis likes to hunt using ambushes. Some praying mantises are so well camouflaged that they can stay untouched until the prey appears, or slowly approach.
The killing of birds has upended people's perception of praying mantises. Studies have shown that small birds often become prey to praying mantises, and about 70% of them are killed and eaten. It's unthinkable that the praying mantises would stand on a special hummingbird feeder that knows exactly where to stay, and some praying mantises might even run on the ground in search of prey, but more often hide and wait for the food to arrive, as if ordering takeout. Even more unusual, a large number of experiments are enough to prove that praying mantises adjust the speed of their attacks based on the speed at which the target moves in order to catch prey at different speeds more effectively as they fly by.
I would say that if there weren't for photographic slow motion, we would never have known that they would adjust their attack speed and orientation, and when you learn more and more about the praying mantises, you will definitely think of them as all-round killers. Like a fish, this poor thing didn't even try to resist, what the hell was going on, how could an insect eat a fish?! There are also praying mantises that eat frogs, and although it is desperate to try to get out, the praying mantis doesn't care much, it wants to eat when it's hungry! The big tiger head bee is just as delicious.
If you think that a praying mantis can only attack, then you are wrong, if a predator approaches the mantis, it will stand up, without fear, raise its forefoot and spread its wings, brandishing its double knife to make it look bigger and more fierce. If the tactics of intimidation don't work, the mantis will take the initiative, the small mantis is enough to hurt a lot of enemies, if you want to ask me what animal is small and cool, then it must be a praying mantis that is not afraid of anything, so do you really think the yellow finches can kill the praying mantis?
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