What do praying mantis eat - Praying Mantis Diet - Feeding Praying Mantis

What do praying mantis eat? 1. The praying mantis is a carnivore. 2. It’s a meat-eating insect with many small animals on its menu. 3. They are surprisingly ferocious predators capable of takin on small birds & reptiles. 4. Mantises are biotrophic i.e. they eat both carnivorous and herbivorous arthropods equally. 5. They feed on: * crickets * grasshoppers * spiders * butterflies * beetles * and occasionally other praying mantises. * humming birds * frogs * leafhoppers * caterpillars * mosquitoes * small birds * lizards #prayingmantis #insects #mantids #pets #whatdotheyeat #predator