Pictures: Praying Mantis Eats Hummingbird

Posted on: 1:30 pm, September 27, 2012, by WHNT News 19, updated on: 02:25pm, September 27, 2012

Charles Alverson, a WHNT News 19 viewer in Guntersville, took these photos with his iPhone on Wednesday, September 26. The pictures show a praying mantis ambushing a hummingbird and eating it.

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