For most of us, if not all of us, the mantis or mantis insect is an example of kindness, goodness, and psychological peace with the world around us. His famous name, "The Praying Mantis," is derived from his deep stillness and the position of his raised arms. This is a monk lying with his sword over a green leaf or a small branch waiting for the sustenance of heaven. What is the problem here then ?!
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The problem is that your entire information about this violent hunter is completely wrong! The mantis is one of the fiercest and most terrifying insects on the planet. By the way, the mantis does not raise its arms but its two front legs, which are powerful and strong so that it can snatch any insect or spider. It goes beyond amphibians such as frogs and lizards Small. But new here, according to recent studies on the pattern of hunting and feeding the conflict is that they are able to catch birds as well! They rarely do this ... they do it almost all the time!
A nightmare picture, are not you ?! This is especially true in the light of the new research published in the famous journal The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, which showed that hundreds of birds are killed each year as victims of the hermitage, and that this predatory pattern exists in many different types of species around the world. Most cases of this type of insect predation have been reported to birds in North America, where small birds, especially hummingbirds, have been snored and fed by nuisance insects in parks or public parks.
In this study, the researchers documented nearly 150 cases of bird flu outbreaks around the world. It was observed that the conflict in 12 different species of nine families in the Kingdom of Insects feeds on small birds in the wild. This behavior has been recorded in 13 different countries, all but Antarctica, which have been found to feed on a variety of birds including 24 species and 14 different families. After this discovery, no matter how large, both at the taxonomic or geographical level in the world of insects and birds.
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The study is full of frightening and strange statistics that we may not like, and you can find them in full in the end of the article, but what I have noticed is that the conflict succeeds in killing and feeding about 78% of the birds that hold it with its strong front legs that can not be decomposed, while 2% Only to evade the grip of the mantis themselves without help. The remaining 18% of the surviving birds are rescued by humans who can not see a bird being eaten alive and cut off by a fine insect.
The researchers also found that 70% of the reported cases reported by the United States alone, where the mantis is still motionless around the places feeding birds buzzing like flowers or houses of pollination frequented by those small birds to get them to ignore them. Thus, it is no wonder that the buzzing birds are the most frequent and frequent victim of the hunt, especially the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Although it is annoying and can cause nightmares for several days, it has other very serious environmental aspects that should not be tolerated. With the increasing pattern of this abnormal feeding of birds in North America, scientists fear that this will be exacerbated by the natural balance between living organisms, especially since species of exotic and migratory species have been introduced several years ago in North America as a means of controlling insect pests that feed on conflict Normally. But the verse seems to have turned unexpectedly, or it has not been studied well. The conflict has posed a direct threat to the birds and other small birds that are important for the continent's normal life cycle.
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At present, researchers recommend that no alien species be introduced and used to resist insects even if they are effective in eliminating harmful pests in your garden or farm; the effects of this will be even worse and uncontrollable.