Look Out!
"I would not have believed the photo if my sister hadn't taken it," wrote Rebecca Reid. The picture shows a praying mantis eating a hummingbird, and it's not for the faint-hearted. "To add to the astonishment, my sister removed the praying mantis from her feeder and took him to the other side of the house. Before the day was over, the praying mantis had returned and killed a second hummingbird."

Shawn Wilson shared a shot of a praying mantis in his backyard: "I have dozens. I get a bit concerned for the hummers. Yet I try to either move or just see where they are. I never knew until a few years ago that the mantis is a predator to hummers. No good!! But I do not want to harm the mantis either."

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Shawn Wilson	Pat Maxey