Praying mantises are also known to capture and kill hummingbirds, as a reader from West Chester, Pennsylvania, describes. â BWD. The other day while I was working in the yard my son urgently called to me. âDad, a praying mantis caught a hummingbird!â. Not sure what to expect, but knowing my son is not one to make things up, I came running to see for myself. By the time I arrived it was too late for the poor hummer and my scientifically minded son had already begun taking pictures and studying the scene.
they say that sperm can survive for up to 5 days although this is only in the right conditions eg fertile cervical mucus usually they would last for 2 hours and that would be just prior to ovulation when your cervical mucus resembles egg whites
Sperm do not live long without moisture. Sperm account for between two and five percent of the composition of semen. The semen provides a moist, nutrient rich environment for sperm according to News Medical. Once outside the body, the sperm will only live until the semen dries. Web MD states that semen can live longer inside water such as a bathtub or pool than on a dry surface, but the likelihood of the sperm finding its way into a woman's body from a pool of water is slim.