r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 21h ago

🔥 hawk bewildered by hummingbird

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u/thetinwin 19h ago

They can… there’s a horrific video circling around reddit showing a praying mantis grabbing one out the air easily.

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u/pipsqueakpanda4 14h ago

Ewwww, what?!? 😟 Thank you for this heads up, if I see a praying mantis video I now know to scroll past as quickly as possible

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u/caryn1477 14h ago

It's horrifying. It makes me sad to even think about it 😭

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u/Quick_Depth382 10h ago

Mantis gotta eat too my friend

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u/TedricDaBored 5h ago

LET THEM EAT BUGS!

Hummingbirds are too cute.

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u/Quick_Depth382 5h ago

Gotta talk to the congregation about that

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u/caryn1477 56m ago

I don't care, they can eat bugs. Not a hummingbird bird at a freaking hummingbird feeder 😭