[mlulu23]

Originally Posted by staystill

You beat me to it LOL. It was shock to me when I found this out. I always liked the praying mantis even the grasshopper. It never occurred to me they do this. Wish my father was alive to know this.

It never hurts to have multiple sources. I gave you a rep for it although hearing that poor sweet hummer crying broke my heart. According to the comment section the US imported these larger, non native mantises for pest control, which I believe was a big mistake. But we've imported other mistakes as well like the carp.

I like them both, but now that I know what they do to hummers I would take a shovel to the darn thing if I ever had a garden again, which is not likely. The last one I had I planted a bunch of hummer friendly flowers to keep the resident Anna hummers around. The mantises can hide in those as well. The little "flower spiders" hide in flowers. They are kind of cute, and won't hurt hummers. Hummers win my vote, hands down.

[mlulu23]

Originally Posted by staystill

A dog and deer eating a bird? I never in my life would have thought they would eat a bird and swallow it whole That was a good find to show me furthermore it's not just kitty or feral cats eating what they can get.

Yeah, it appears that birds are a hot item on the menu for everybody.

Here is one of a cow eating a baby chick. The quality of the video is pretty warped. This is what one commenter said about it. "When you're a herbivore but you eat meat so the fabric of reality starts to dematerialize." That was pretty funny, and quite true. There was another one of an elk eating a baby goose, or duck. But I thought I had better stop while I was ahead, lol. I guess we have made our point.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NOhQlPGAU


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[Martinberg]

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