You "put one out"?
What do you mean by that? Did you 'end it' or did you release it?
No it was sitting on the wiper of my car so I put it outside in the garden.
Are they uncomon in NL?
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Praying mantis
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No it was sitting on the wiper of my car so I put it outside in the garden.
Are they uncomon in NL?
Enmos
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No I understand your point, I just don’t think that the speed of a Preying Mantis defies physic’s, yes its fast but relative to what?.
But then that’s only a figure of speech.
I was just being pedantic.
Ah ok.
Yea, we don't have them here at all
I feel bad for you Enmos, you don't seem to have any of the "cool" bugs...
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
I know..I feel bad for you Enmos, you don't seem to have any of the "cool" bugs...
I'd love to shoot them. I think they look awesome.
Enmos
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Here are some truly awesome captures of Praying Mantises (search for 'mantis'):
http://pixdaus.com/
Three images from that search (40 images in total):
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I had to download them and upload them to my personal webspace.
I put links on the images that will direct you to their original page.
http://pixdaus.com/
Three images from that search (40 images in total):
Edit:
I had to download them and upload them to my personal webspace.
I put links on the images that will direct you to their original page.
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Praying Mantis vs. Spider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImTed17ksY
Nature's Perfect Predators- Praying Mantis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGuallLPcM
A Mantis strike is one 20th of a second. Twice as fast as the blink of an eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YImTed17ksY
Nature's Perfect Predators- Praying Mantis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGuallLPcM
A Mantis strike is one 20th of a second. Twice as fast as the blink of an eye.
Last summer, I had to evict a Black Widow spider from my motorcycle's front wheel when getting ready for a trip. A direct hit of wasp spray fixed her wagon. Cleaning out the web, I spotted the remnants of a Praying Mantis, encased in silk, and dangling.
Everything on earth.
I'm not sure how else to say that so you can understand it.
The flight speed of a falcon has nothing to do with it either, hence I knew you didn't understand a simple point.
The mantis moves faster than any living creature, of any type, on earth.
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
Everything on Earth? That’s a very absolute statement to make, I think its been proved the a Mantis strikes at one twentieth of a second. Which without doubt is fast but not the fastest animal and not even the fastest insect. In movement, flight or striking speed.
The fastest striking insect is the Panamanian Termite, the soldier termite's jaws strike an invader at almost 70 meters per second as captured on a high speed video camera in the laboratory at 40,000 frames per second.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124165259.htm
Is it as visually interesting as the Mantis 'No' but its faster!
The fastest animal on earth is the Peregrine Falcon. It can fly at speeds of 55 mph horizontally, but when flying downwards they reach speeds of over 270 mph. This speed can not be matched by any other animal in the world, be it on land, sea or sky.
But if your talking about the fastest land animal it would be the Cheetah which can run upwards of 70 M.P.H
Now everything I've written is a statement of fact, which is backed up by scientific measurement and documented.
What you've given is an opinion, one that I perfectly understand. The only problem with it is that it’s wrong.
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I see you read Enmos' thread above and are pretending you already knew that.
There are also mentions of the Mantis Shrimp being the fastest strike, surprised no one mentioned it.
Your idea that Peregrine Falcons go over 270 may be based on an erroneous publication by National Geographic. It's of course very fast, I've seen one take a kill in the wild several times, once in my back yard. The claim of being 'clocked' at over 270mph has been met with considerable skepticism.
I saw a documentary on this stuff and they concluded, as I stated, the fastest strike in the animal kingdom is the Preying Mantis. I've yet to see anything that disproved that, supposed jaw speed of a termite or not.
Though the Mantis Shrimp does strike with the power of a .22 caliber rifle bullet leaving the barrel, so I can understand the claims that it's the fastest.
There are also mentions of the Mantis Shrimp being the fastest strike, surprised no one mentioned it.
Your idea that Peregrine Falcons go over 270 may be based on an erroneous publication by National Geographic. It's of course very fast, I've seen one take a kill in the wild several times, once in my back yard. The claim of being 'clocked' at over 270mph has been met with considerable skepticism.
I saw a documentary on this stuff and they concluded, as I stated, the fastest strike in the animal kingdom is the Preying Mantis. I've yet to see anything that disproved that, supposed jaw speed of a termite or not.
Though the Mantis Shrimp does strike with the power of a .22 caliber rifle bullet leaving the barrel, so I can understand the claims that it's the fastest.
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Enmos
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Those are pretty fast:
Biologists clocked the speed at which the trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus bauri, closes its mandibles at 35 to 64 meters per second.
But the termites are faster though:
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By the way, the Mantis Shrimp 'only' reaches 23m/s:
In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start, about the acceleration of a .22 caliber bullet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp
When I saw this title I thought of this
when you are doing a girl doggy style and put your fingers in her nose from over her forehead and pull her back. The resulting flailing of her arms makes her look like a praying mantis
when you are doing a girl doggy style and put your fingers in her nose from over her forehead and pull her back. The resulting flailing of her arms makes her look like a praying mantis
I love love love love mantises. They're so beautiful. Something about the proportions of their bodies, they remind me a little of figures in computer games.
Never seen a live one, though.
Never seen a live one, though.