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- cl2yp71c, on 07/25/2008, -2/+25Interestingly beautiful insects.
I simply love their simple yet complex form, decorated with the piquant color schemes.
They look like they directly came out of a scifi flick.(or vice-versa) - AndrewKC6, on 07/25/2008, -2/+23Wow awesome! beautiful but scary as ***** at the same time... Imagine on of those things the size of a horse?
- Hoogs, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14One day after school, I saw a praying mantis in my garage. I watched as it slowly approached a yellowjacket and, once close enough, lash out and grab the thing with its forelegs. I then stared in amazement as it proceeded to tear at the now helpless insect, first removing the head and then slowly consuming the body while holding it to its mouth. That's still one of the coolest things in nature I've ever seen.
- seraph582, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11Jesus christ! The title briefly sent a cold shiver down my spine! I thought it said "Mantisies" as in "Man Fantisies"
ugh! - cricketsymphony, on 07/25/2008, -0/+10cruel
the actions of an insect are never motivated by kindness or cruelty - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+9I liked the cannibalistic comic:
http://tinyurl.com/6mcus8 - alexanEmpire, on 07/25/2008, -5/+12This is most wonderful article that has been posted on digg all year. Thank you, TalSiach.
- jennagen, on 07/25/2008, -3/+11absolutely gorgeous
- PabloMac, on 07/25/2008, -5/+12Beautiful and truly fascinating, but "...the cruel female eats the male..."
Can we stop trying to attach human characteristics to non-human life forms? - Frogee, on 07/25/2008, -4/+11Definitely the most beautiful of all insects, that's for ***** sure.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6Why don't you have a seat over there...
- Thrilltone, on 07/25/2008, -2/+8Extraordinary creatures
Lightning fast and stunningly beautiful - B00Radley, on 07/25/2008, -2/+9Very cool.
- dogatemypron, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5For those who watched the video clip:
WTF? I'm not sure if I got this right or not but it looks like the female and male were mating *spoiler* then the female attacked the male, ate the head and part of the leg, and then the male (headless and part legless) re-mounted the female and continued to do the dirty... HEADLESS???? - BigBoomBob, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Not as good in the bug arenas as this article might lead you to believe.
http://gladiatorbugs.com/ - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5someone shoop a "FTW!!1!" on the first pic
- shaXian, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5http://i33.tinypic.com/s3d6he.jpg
word. - AThoughtOrTwo, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Beautiful. They SEEM coldly calculating and utterly foreign to us humans in every way...
Unlike spiders, the eat the head first - which to humans means the 'prey' may suffer less. I don't know if that is true - but at least mantids don't spin those horrible webs that I keep running into during a night walk. - cricketsymphony, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4that's a pretty strong statement.
- tomazws, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Beautiful photographs... Their stance does look a bit intimidating, I guess these creatures are what some Chinese kung fu are based on..
- deathfix, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Which one shall I set as the background on my sister's computer to freak her out?
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Did you know...?
...praying mantis beings are often seen, and communicated with, by those who smoke/injest the psychedelic DMT?
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sou ... - r00db0y, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Great photos. These insects are great - fascinating to watch and great entertainment to feed.
We live in central CA and every year we catch a young mantis and keep in a terariam as a pet for the summer. The kids (9 & 3 yrs old) love watching them. We all have to catch food (other bugs for them) and sometimes when the bugs get scarce - we get feeder crickets from the pet store to feed our pet mantis.
My 9 yr old daughter did a big 3rd grade project on mantids this year and as part of the project we spent a weekend building a 3.5 ft paper mache model of a mantis - got 50/50 pts on that.
For an experiment at a BBQ last year, we had a LG black widow spider and a full grown mantis that we put into a cage together - people were split on who they thought would win. No contest. Bees, wasps, it dont matter - these things a real hunters.
Thanks for the DIGG - brings up lots of good memories for me. - Ollin, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5There is so much choppin potential in those pictures.
- themastersb, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3They have some pretty kinky sex.
- onionlayer, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Spac ...
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3i'd hit her.
- GalacticXenu, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3You can buy praying mantises online.
I raised Orchid mantises as pets. They're pink and evolved to blend in on orchid flowers. Google them if you want to see them, they're really beautiful and fascinating bugs. - digg1520, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2crazy bitches
- openyoureyes17, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I have a phobia of praying mantises :( I hate when they grace the front of digg, especially now that there are thumbnails :*(
- mrspurs16, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2"In his opinion"
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Dozens of people have reported smoking DMT and seeing huge praying mantis-like intelligent beings communicating with them.
That would definitely freak me the frak out. - holyskeleton, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2who knows how many horror films have been inspired by this.
- mamut, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5Absolutely amazing!!!
- jellyfishes, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2If I had to be an insect... mantis for sure
- jellyfishes, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2They definitely have an otherworldly appearance... especially the ones with elaborate camouflage.
- robfrye, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Now see....stuff like this is why I fell in love with DIGG in the first place.
- shaXian, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I love mantises. There are ten or so in a tree out back and they will take crickets from my hands. So full of win.
- Exact0, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2It's not news fool. It's a fascinating article. Are you new here?
- Cloud7654, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Lol, "Round the 1th"
- tchynerd, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Very cool but those things are badasses as well. For example they have been known to kill snakes (the larger varities of mantis that is). I would not want to fight a human sized mantis.
- antdude, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Anyone kept them as pets? I did. Cool pets. :)
- Yondelldude, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Caption Contest!
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Leave captions as replies to this comment: - christilovett, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1He also tried escaping as well (with no head). Crazy stuff.
- shaXian, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1http://i33.tinypic.com/s3d6he.jpg
- cricketsymphony, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2yes, the comments prefer their own gender. that makes perfect sense, dumbass.
- Spyke72, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1I got excited because I thought this was about Man-Fantasies. Not Praying Mantises.
Oh well. - r00db0y, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Dood - that site is great - thx 4 the link. I wish I could speak Japanese so I would know the names of some of the combatants. Or better yet, if they would do an English overdub like they do on that wacky "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" they have on the Spike channel.
- serif69, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I am the lone locust of the apocalypse. Think of me when you look to the night sky.
- shaXian, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1but she'd hit back.
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