Interesting article

[Synapze]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/science/praying-mantis-eating-birds.html

 

[Viking]

That is  really surprising!

 

[Mantis Lady]

That a big mantis can grab a humming bird I already knew. There are vids of that on youtube. They can grab snakes too. They are good hunters. Their eyes are bigger than their stomach

 

[MantisGirl13]

Cool! I'm kind of surprised that it's a religiosa not a T. sinensis.

- MantisGirl13

 

[hysteresis]

Spectacular, that an insect can take a bird!

 

[Viking]

Goliath spiders can kill and eat hummingbirds, rodents and lizards. They are 11 inches across and have 25 year life-span.

 

[hysteresis]

Goliath spiders can kill and eat hummingbirds, rodents and lizards. They are 11 inches across and have 25 year life-span.

That is mind blowing 

But then again, those are arachnids. Not insects. 

 

[Viking]

There are videos.  A spider dragging a mouse possum on the forest floor. They are inverts. The fangs are close to an inch. arachnidphobes will have trouble sleeping tonight.

 

[hysteresis]

arachnidphobes will have trouble sleeping tonight.

I'd think one would be hard pressed to find an arachnophobe in this place.

 

[Viking]

I am in recovery. I can look at them now without freaking. It is funny once I decided to not freak out they stopped bugging me.  Bugging me means sitting reading a book and a spider comes down from the ceiling 3 inches from your faces. Or walking across the lenses of your glasses. My niece years ago was(is) an aranchidphobe. I told her the story about them bugging me and it started happening to her. She was convinced that I had the power to sick them on her. LOL

 

[hysteresis]

That's them infringing on your personal space. Shame on them for having no manners!

 

[Mantis Lady]

I'd think one would be hard pressed to find an arachnophobe in this place.

I  dont think I will ever handling a big tarantula, but they are cool to see.

 

[hysteresis]

I'm fine with almost anything, EXCEPT anything buzzing around my head. 

 

[MantisGirl13]

I'm fine with almost anything, EXCEPT anything buzzing around my head. 

Even an adult male mantis?!

- MantisGirl13

 

[hysteresis]

Even an adult male mantis?!

- MantisGirl13

Probably poop my pants if it caught me unaware.

 

[Granny's Mantis Mayhem]

Great info  thank you. Sharing on my FB page!

 

[MintyWood826]

Cool. Wouldn't want the hummingbirds on my property getting eaten though. 

Goliath spiders can kill and eat hummingbirds, rodents and lizards. They are 11 inches across and have 25 year life-span.

Can I make a small correction?  Species of the genus Theraphosa only very rarely get that big. But you're absolutely correct in implying how tarantulas are amazing hunters! Other species that get large can take down vertebrates too. 

 

[MantisGirl13]

Probably poop my pants if it caught me unaware.

Lol  

I once found a male Chinese by taking a walk around our neighborhood at dusk. I stopped under a stress light and a huge buzzing thing landed in y hair. It took me a second to realize it was a mantis!

- MantisGirl13

 

[FeistyMcGrudle]

Apparently word is getting out that mantises are now a danger to your humming birds and to kill any mantises on sight unless you want all your hummingbirds dead.