About 10 days ago I found an adult mantis and put it in the big enclosure with all the big snakes. I didn't know what to expect, or why I did that, but this "bug" snagged a piece of night crawler from the mouth of a big t.s. concinnus girl last night and devoured it.

Today I'm feeding the snakes and this mantis seemed to have caught on that it was feeding time and he rode the back of this big concinnus girl like he was her jockey. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So, I purposely gave the snake a long piece and sure enough, the mantis rode and climbed up to her neck and snagged a piece hanging off, then graciously rode the snake back down to the bottom of the enclosure.

I kid not. It happened! (no proof)

Incidentally, I've never seen a mantis go for worm either