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Centipede/spider/mantis/scorpion
Topic Started: Aug 18 2012, 08:59 AM (44,186 Views)
Wild
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Black Ice
Oct 20 2012, 11:08 AM
Yea evidence of them preying on smaller centipedes.
While theres also the same (and vids and pics i posted) of pedes preying on scorps.
We are at a impass. At weight parity the pede will be dimentionally bigger or longer. Go by just length.
Your pitting a EMP scorp against a small centipede.
See where this is going?
Basically.

You never hear of EMP taking giant centipedes of same weight, not length. Never!
And you never hear giant pedes taking large scorpions.
don't make me pull out the picture.........

Just go by length???? Heck no! That's the most misleading measurement, go by weight or size, the centipede should be longer than the scorpion
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Wild Dog, look at the signature request thread.
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Did you not see my last post?
I said "at same weights the centipede will be dimentionally bigger or longer"
You all think same size, is how same length.
Don't make me bring the video back. And the pic.
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Oct 20 2012, 11:19 AM
Did you not see my last post?
I said "at same weights the centipede will be dimentionally bigger or longer"
You all think same size, is how same length.
Don't make me bring the video back. And the pic.
do it....I dare u
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It's torture sifting threw 35 pages for it lol .
But wild dog you and me alone pretty much made 25 pages of this thread on arthropod predation etc.
I think we did good :D
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Oct 20 2012, 11:27 AM
It's torture sifting threw 35 pages for it lol .
But wild dog you and me alone pretty much made 25 pages of this thread on arthropod predation etc.
I think we did good :D
we did phenomenal ok i'm done let's just agree to disagree for now
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Who won?
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We agreed to disagree.
I think this threads time has ended. By far the most popular thread i made!
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Oct 20 2012, 11:55 AM
We agreed to disagree.
I think this threads time has ended. By far the most popular thread i made!
yes
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Did you find the pic of a Mantis?
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Oct 20 2012, 12:02 PM
Did you find the pic of a Mantis?
no
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Oct 20 2012, 12:27 PM
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it's too big tho and I wanted it to be eating something
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So which is the most effective predator at parity? I'm having a hard time deciding. I've seen a largish mantis beat a somewhat equally sized camel spider fairly easily and I've seen a camel spider demolish a Chinese mantis considerably larger than itself. On land, I would rate these two as the most effective predators.

I think the robberfly is the most effective aerial predator. I was particularly impressed by this subspecies called Triorla Interrupta. It can take down prey much larger than itself. However, as they are small aerial predators, there aren't too many videos of them out there. But I've heard that they might even be able to take down hummingbirds. Now that is an impressive feat for a mantis to carry out, but robberflies are much smaller so if that's true, then that is truly an incredible feat.

On water, I'd say it is the larva of Dytiscus marginalis (diving beetle). These guys are simply in a league of their own. In terms of pure ferocity, I don't think they have an equal in the animal kingdom. For example, they seem to be even more cannibalistic than praying mantises.

So I'd say it's a 4 way tie: Mantis, camel spider, robber fly, diving beetle larva.
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Oct 24 2012, 01:03 AM
So which is the most effective predator at parity? I'm having a hard time deciding. I've seen a largish mantis beat a somewhat equally sized camel spider fairly easily and I've seen a camel spider demolish a Chinese mantis considerably larger than itself. On land, I would rate these two as the most effective predators.

I think the robberfly is the most effective aerial predator. I was particularly impressed by this subspecies called Triorla Interrupta. It can take down prey much larger than itself. However, as they are small aerial predators, there aren't too many videos of them out there. But I've heard that they might even be able to take down hummingbirds. Now that is an impressive feat for a mantis to carry out, but robberflies are much smaller so if that's true, then that is truly an incredible feat.

On water, I'd say it is the larva of Dytiscus marginalis (diving beetle). These guys are simply in a league of their own. In terms of pure ferocity, I don't think they have an equal in the animal kingdom. For example, they seem to be even more cannibalistic than praying mantises.

So I'd say it's a 4 way tie: Mantis, camel spider, robber fly, diving beetle larva.
can I see the vid of a camel spider killing a larger chinese mantis?
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