Mantids will usually eat anything that moves, but from my studies, ants are too small to justify the energy required to capture one. They would probably have a hard time holding it. I had a praying mantis that ate a lizard; the lizard was my pet and I never thought it would happen. This was before the days of computers so I couldn't simply google the subject. They love crickets; I've actually fed them by hand. They don't have any interest in earthworms, at least mine didn't.
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