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Praying Mantis devours locust in time-lapse [1]

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Date: 2024-02-26  

Watch a praying mantis eat a giant locust in this timelapse. The 3-minute video shows the Mantis's 3-hour feast, offering a unique and condensed view of nature's complexity and the circle of life in the insect world. (In the eyes of a locust, it would be a snuff film).

This time-lapse was fascinating to watch, especially because of how large the locust is.

It amazes me that the mantis can eat another bug that looks to be about one-third its size

See also: Tiny predator in action — watch a baby mantis try to snatch and eat a bug on video

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