Dangerous mantis Bashny.Net

Not everyone knows that praying mantises - quite dangerous predatory insects. These fragile-looking creation often attacked not only their own kind, but animals whose dimensions exceed their own.





Mantis lightning ambush, and dig into his victim forepaws. Their prehensile limbs are often not only insects but also frogs, lizards, small birds and rodents.



Mantis pictured regales lizard.



Butterfly cuddle predator.



Bright color ladybug serves as a warning for the birds and insects on her inedibility and virulence. But it does not stop praying mantis.



Wasps are also included in the diet of the voracious predator.



Mantises eat even poisonous spiders such as the black widow spider and red.



Predatory insects can spend a long time in ambush, waiting for a new victim.



Giant Asian mantis eats a grasshopper.



Do not hesitate predator and tiny aphids.



Their victims mantises first tear the head, and then begin to eat them.



Mantis perfectly disguised as the surrounding plants. Insect pictured successfully simulated a orchid flower, and so became the happy owner of two flies.



Grasshoppers - one of the most common "treats" in the diet of the predator.



Mantis - unsurpassed master of mimicry.



Headless grasshopper in grasping paws predatory insects.



Voracious predator poses for the camera.