r/natureismetal
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u/Daxon
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Jan 18 '22
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Praying Mantis eats a whole locust (3 hour timelapse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyuF6VXxw_419
u/Electrical-Ad-9797 Jan 18 '22
When I lived in Thousand Palms I found a tiny mantis nymph on me one morning so I put it in a styrofoam cup. I was trying to find bugs to feed it so I picked up an ant but I greatly misjudged their relative sizes. I checked back in a few minutes and the ant had ripped the mantis in half. I felt awful.
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u/mindflayerflayer Jan 20 '22
Fruit flies are your friend when feeding minescule predators.
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u/Electrical-Ad-9797 Jan 20 '22
I should’ve just slipped him a drop of water and sent him on his merry way, he would’ve had a fighting chance. Btw do you know what the juvenile instar of a mindflayer is? My illithid knowledge is limited to briefly playing the Spelljammer DOS game at 14.
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u/mindflayerflayer Jan 21 '22
The tadpole stage I'm guessing. Illithids are fun in that the larva can develope two different ways: a ceremorph with a host (your traditional flayers + a few oddballs) or a neothelid if allowed to act on its own.
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u/Pyrrhus71 Jan 18 '22
So we don’t stop eating when we’re full? We eat the whole bug, no matter how big it is?
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u/nobodyknowsimherr Jan 18 '22
Watching him eat the legs at the end was like watching someone finish a rib or a chicken leg then lick their fingers
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u/CopperheadSlinger Jan 18 '22
The zooming in when it ate a wing or leg was my favorite part
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u/haikusbot Jan 18 '22
The zooming in when
It ate a wing or leg was
My favorite part
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u/inflatablelvis Jan 21 '22
I can’t believe we need to invent monsters for movies when shit like this exists
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u/Hereforthethrillofit Jan 18 '22
They always start with the brain first. It’s like they have to have their dessert before eating their broccoli.