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Go mantis!
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Response to Tanuki (Original post)
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Tanuki
(14,914 posts)I think they are really cool and love finding one in my garden, but I don't see them very often.
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littlemissmartypants
(22,531 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Well, praying mantises are cool and excellent predators. I wonder if they can be utilized to deal with the murder hornet though?
I was thinking how the murder hornet would be a more fitting mascot/symbol for the GOP. Maybe we could take on the preying mantis. The thing is, when you eat the GOP heads, there is either nothing in there or it is toxic and rotten.
Oh, well.
BComplex
(8,017 posts)malaise
(268,663 posts)piece of shit
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Coincidence?
Oh, I keep calling it a wasp when it is a hornet. Fixed. Stuck in my head.
malaise
(268,663 posts)Tanuki
(14,914 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Big, flying, nasty, painful, mean stingy things!
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Agent Orange.
COVID-45.
Cheeto Benito.
Just running through my favs.
malaise
(268,663 posts)Don the criminally negligent Con.
Hope all is well down there today, malaise.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)That is a brand new thing, calling them that. The media came up with it to scare people. It worked.
I do love praying mantises though. They are awesome.
BComplex
(8,017 posts)of posts about murderer wasps invading our country.
I gotta tell you, those killer bees and fire ants are no fun, and they're for real!
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I was barefooted that day and saw it just before getting ready to step off the ramp from my porch. I saw it in the nick of time. Those are pretty painful sting too. I have the red imported fire ants and native fire ants and a bunch of other species I have yet to identify in my yard too, including one ant that is about an inch long, black, and if it grabs you with its mandibles, it doesn't let go until you pull it off. Pulling it off, beheads it and you still have to get the head off and make it let go. I try to avoid those at all costs.
I also have various regular hornet species too. My yard should be studied by an entomologist to see what's up with so many species of ants and wasps and hornets here. I did have honey bees of some kind visit my hummingbird feeder one year.
I am hoping the Asian Giant Hornet, aka Japanese Giant Hornet (I have heard it called those two things most of the time) shouldn't become a problem, according to Coyote Peterson. I hope he is right.
Coyote Peterson let one sting him. He take stings for a living, or did, until he completed the most painful list. Now, he has a show on Animal Planet. He says we shouldn't worry too much and they most likely won't spread. He is usually right, from what I have seen.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202005061079210956-king-of-sting-coyote-peterson-warns-murder-hornets-unlikely-to-spread-across-us/
maxrandb
(15,289 posts)It's really a wasp, but since the females that can sting you are wingless they got the name ant
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymutilla_occidentalis
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)It is a wingless solitary wasp, but still something I never want to step on, lol. That would be a nightmare.
I once had red imported fire ants pants me. I'm not the only one in my neighborhood who got pantsed by them either. I was weed eating some tall weeds that grow about 6 inches a day (I have Japanese knotweed too). I felt pure hell on the upper back part of my right leg. I remember that it was my right leg. It was THAT bad. I just wanted it to stop hurting.
I was new to the Jungle at the time. That is what I call my yard and with good reason. It has spanked many a manly men, kept tractors and vehicles, and other equipment they thought they could try to use, and ran them out screaming. They are always so red in the face. At least one woman who thought she was the most badass of them all too has begged to cut my yard and take a shot at it. She barely got about halfway through and was knocking on the door wanting to negotiate half pay. She was red and covered in welts too.
Scientists should really study my yard for the amount of ants, wasps, and hornets I have. I have never seen this many different species in just .68 of an acre before. I once had honey bees visit my hummingbird feeder too. So, somewhere, at least nearby, they are around too. What species, I do not know.
Anyhow, that day, before I got the 20 or so feet from where I was stung by fire ants to my door into my house, my pants were down. It is embarrassing to admit, but I admit it because the other person in my neighborhood was a big, burly man, not a small sized female like me. When the fire ants pantsed him, he didn't at least keep his undies on by the time he got to the door to his house like I was able to. So, I was tougher than him that one time, at least. Or more modest, lol. Probably that.
I can say that initial instinct to put ice cubes on my upper thigh/ass cheek area did NOT work. It did NOTHING for that pain. Nothing. I will never forget it was on my right upper leg area. It is not often that you can remember over 10 years later where a sting was EXACTLY, but I can on that one. I hurt for days after that. I never forgot it.
Stepping on a cow killer/red velvet (why they call it an ant I don't know, because it is a wasp) would have been a bad bad thing. They are very high up on all of the sting pain indexes out there, even higher than red imported fire ants.
I have mostly red clay for my yard. I wonder if that is why ants, ground hornets, wasps, etc. like it here so much or what. The big black ants that leave their head behind to still pinch you are here too. Just about any ant, bee, wasp, or hornet you can name that is native to this area and a few invasives live here too. They all seem to be living in perfect harmony too. Then, there is me. I just hope most of the most painful ones stay outside the house. I still have abject terror of waking up covered in red imported fire ants inside the house one day. I hope it never happens, but there is a high probability that they could just decide to do it one day. Nothing is stopping them. They would probably take me out of this world too, if they set their little minds to it. Don't tell them that though. I have seen them clean all of the meat off a 2 foot long garfish in 8 hours. My stepfather did an experiment one time.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Good Praying Mantis ! We should make you a Marvel Superhero.
eppur_se_muova
(36,246 posts)they really would be perfect GOP mascots !
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I nominate the murder hornet to replace the elephant. It fits much better.
Polybius
(15,328 posts)I had him as a kid in 1985.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Mantis
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)as soon as the mate.......she a mate killer too
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)It just takes longer.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,073 posts)Mantises are my favorite bugs, especially orchid mantises and flower mantises.
Celerity
(43,062 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,236 posts)yonder
(9,653 posts)Boooo.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)A mantis flew into my house and sat on my arm while everyone was singing the birthday song. I gave him some icing. Than he took off landed in front of the back door. I went and picked him off the floor and he went back on my arm,I walked into the porch and he took off and landed on the hollybush.
He came to wish me a happy birthday and get a little dollop of icing. It was cool.
ecstatic
(32,641 posts)even after 95% of its head was chewed off.
machoneman
(3,994 posts)EndlessWire
(6,450 posts)I once saw a Mantis on my porch. It was huge. I only wanted to look at it. This thing turned its head, looked at me, and then it spread these winglike things on either side of its head. It was awesome!
The thing that was amazing the most was the fact that it turned its head and LOOKED at me. I wonder what it thought I was. This was like an interspecies meeting of the minds.
I think insects are sentient , live in their own scary world, and they try stuff. What's the difference between a human spreading a coat to scare off a bear, and this insect spreading that cowl to scare off me? Not much.
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I have talks - yes, you read that right - with the mantises I come across about staying away from the hummingbirds.
They don't listen. So I pick them up and move them away when they get near the hummer feeders.