I was working in my home office when I came across a large female preying mantis. Upon taking a closer look, I noticed that she had captured a Sibley Field Guide in her taloned front legs and was in the process of killing it. I rushed to get my digital camera and snapped several images while the mantis completed her gruesome task.
I know that preying mantises are rapacious beasts and will kill and consume anything they can capture—moths, ants, butterflies, hummingbirds, Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, and other small, beautiful things. But THIS! This is TOO much!
I watched as page-by-page, the mantis chewed and swallowed, not even stopping to wipe her ink-stained mouthparts.
Soon, all that was left was a single sheet of blank white paper.
And a mantis that looked at me with the eyes of a cold killer.
1 comments:
WOW! Interesting... I just seen a preying mantis and decided too put it in a jar and investigate. I think its a female???
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