2023年1月12日 · A video screenshot shows a praying mantis attacking a hummingbird. At right is a stock image of a praying mantis, which will often capture and eat small birds.

2013年8月22日 · When Nature attacks, Animals gone wild , this happens all the time in the wild so its a rare event to get it on camera ...more. skip ahead 0:20 Pray Mantis Catches Hummingbird at a Bird...

2014年10月8日 · It’s rare, but it’s gruesome. A praying mantis lurks on a hummingbird feeder, watching carefully as a hummingbird hovers near the sugary water. With one quick motion, the mantis grabs at the hummingbird—and misses.

2017年7月6日 · A praying mantis (Tenodera sinensis) eating a ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) in Illinois. (Image credit: Courtesy of whatsthatbug.com /Randy Anderson)

2024年5月23日 · Spotting a praying mantis on your hummingbird feeder puts hummingbirds in danger due to their carnivorous appetite.

2017年7月16日 · Researchers from the University of Basel have documented dozens of cases, over nearly 100 years, of praying mantises feeding on small birds. And while they're not fussy eaters, they seem to...

2017年7月7日 · "The fact that eating of birds by praying mantises is so widespread, both taxonomically as well as geographically speaking, is a spectacular discovery," says paper first author Martin...

2024年2月26日 · Praying mantises have evolved highly effective strategies for capturing hummingbirds, which play out in the following typical sequence: The mantis selects a perch within or near a flower that it knows attracts hummingbirds.

2017年7月10日 · If we needed any further proof that this voracious carnivore is a threat to animals and insects alike, we now have it – with a new study by zoologists finding that praying mantises have been documented killing birds and devouring their brains across the globe.

2024年6月25日 · The short answer is yes, praying mantises will eat hummingbirds. That being said, the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) blog says that it's very rare, and that it takes a considerably large mantis to consume a hummingbird.