Mantis attacks minnow?

[Filthy Sanchez]

This guy fed his mantis a minnow outta water and it ate it, so he then wondered if it would eat one swimming in water. So he tried an expeiment..

http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/BWW/mantis.mov

 

[piranha45]

thats great, i imagine the mantis caught it eventually?

 

[davo]

cool

 

[MarlboroMan]

Thats badass. Mantid or Mantis are the coolest predatory insect.

 

[rayman45]

wow

 

[rook45]

cool

 

[Princley]

lol my lord sooooooooooooooooo cool i love it

 

[ewurm]

If that stupid bug tried to eat my fish, I would step on it with my steel toed boots!

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

If that stupid bug tried to eat my fish, I would step on it with my steel toed boots!

That'd be a lot like Godzilla -vs- Bambi then.

 

[fishnutham]

theres been a lot of threads with manti i'm starting to think about keeping on interesting insect wonder if it would eat my frogs if i kept one in a vivarium?