Update : I just witnessed the preying mantis take out a lizard, yes thats right I said lizard, not a cricket or a roach but a lizard! well it was pretty small to begin with.
picture this, you have a baby lizard and a full grown one. The one that the mantis ate was in between.
Anyways, I throw him in there and nothing happens, so i go and play sonic..like 45 min later, my room mate goes and checks up on him and yells out "the mantis got something in his grasp"! so i go to him and see nothing, and looked on the bottom of the jar and notice there was a skull....only the skull of the lizard!
So I was all hyped up and pissed at the same time because I couldnt witness the whole process. i ran outside and caught another lizard, this time a full grown one. Its been in there for 3 days. Skin peeling off and tail is cut off, meaning its been attacked multiple times, and everytime I look at the mantis hes always "watching" over the lizard, as if hes waiting for it to weaken, then atk.
oh and if you think this is cruel, go to a reptile shop and watch rabbits and mice get pwn3d
