How can a praying mantis kill a snake?

It would have to be a very tiny snake, a just hatched infant of a snake. Against any full grown adult snake, a praying mantis’s chances are slim to nil. In my lifetime I’ve kept both snakes and praying mantises. read more

Mebs notes that Chinese mantises can eat frogs and newts, including venomous species that would kill a human. But the mantises, somehow, are able to ingest and excrete the toxins without absorbing them. read more

Praying mantises feed on insects, mice, small turtles and even snakes. Striking twice as fast as a blink of an eye, praying mantises will slowly devour the unfortunate prey slowly with its ultra sharp mandibles. read more