Excellent site! Thanks Frankk.

Their claw cans strike at 51.1 miles per hour thru water. Fisherman refer to them as "thumb-busters" because they can shatter the bones in your thumb. There is another version of mantis that are called "slashers" cuz' of the barbs on their front legs. Their front legs are spring loaded which un-leash the devastating power and this is where they are said to be as fast as a bullet fired from a hand gun. So much force is released from this front claws hammer, that they emit "light".

As for eating, it won't hurt you but folks say it is repulsive. Some eat it as "sushi" in Japan, and Italy dines on this as well.

Mantis have a proclivity to urinating in the pot while cooking.

Ok, so who wants to eat?