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
How Long Can Sperm Live Inside the Body? The issue is often debated with all kinds of theories that support all sorts of arguments. But in actual sense, how long can sperm live inside the body? Depending on different situations, sperms can survive from hours to 7 days inside a female's body. When a man ejaculates inside a woman, very few sperms survive long enough to make an attempt at fertilization. In order to do this, they have to get as far as they can in the cervix. 1  If the sperms fail to make it into the cervix, the acidic conditions in the vaginal canal make it impossible for them to survive longer than a few hours; 2  If they manage to do that, they can survive for up to 3-4 days;