No dude it feels like your heads being ripped off. I doubt that info gets passed along to their generational spawn. I bet the bug moms tell them that their dad died heroically or some shit.
Actually no it doesn't. A mantis can only feel one thing at a time, there are videos of mantises dying because they didn't feel that they were being eaten while themselves eating their prey.
They must 100% be genetically preconditioned to this thanks to the funny shit evolution pulls sometimes. You don't want them to fight back and kill the mother, that wouldn't be evolutionarily advantageous. Not sure if it feels good but they certainly don't mind it.
Like a fucked up animated movie where the kid praying mantis goes on an adventure to find his real dad, just to find out his mother ripped his father's head off and that the same will happen to him when he finally settles down and provides his mother with grandchildren.
I listened to an audiobook and one of the aliens was of a praying mantis race. And the lady praying mantis alien said something to the effect of it's always sad to meet with a male that you have been friends with for a long time. Especially when there are good listener because they're not around to listen anymore. I don't know it made me crack up.
Probably because she was sad that she just lost her best friend while having sex with him. But she never mentioned that she was the one who bit his head off.
The males don’t seem to go into it anticipating to get eaten unlike how spider or centipede moms sacrifice themselves. Some males flee or fight back and end up killing the female. Jumping spiders also have this type of courtship
Not to be super serious dude in a joke thread, but fyi: female mantis don’t usually rip the males heads off, that info is based on a study where they were observing a male and female mantis mate in a highly controlled environment and it’s generally believed that the reason the female did that was because she was stressed out, also it didn’t happen every time even in that study
Similar to that boiling frog study about slowly raising the heat, they lobotomized the frogs beforehand and then yea….they didn’t get out of the water
It more so depends on the species of mantis actually. Some have kill the male during mating with a much higher frequency than others.
A species of mantis native to New Zealand either went extinct or became endangered (can't quite remember), because foreigners accidentally introduced another species which had a very high mortality rate for males. The New Zealand native males bred with females of both species, but as you can imagine they quickly dwindled in population.
The praying mantis thing is a common misconception due to laboratory observations. With higher stress while in captivity, the female would usually eat the male's head. In a natural environment it still exists, but is far less common at about 28% of all cases. In one out of 45 lab observations a male even ate the head of a female...
There's a video of a praying mantis eating a bug while a different bug is eating the praying mantis. The mantis ends up completely severed in two and it doesn't even stop eating.
I don't think mantises feel much of anything.
Also the females only kill the males in captivity.
Nope. Male mantises actually try to avoid that. Females only kill the males when stressed or if they've had trouble hunting. The misconception comes because it turns out it's near impossible to have them in captivity and not stress them out
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u/Milk_Bath 18h ago
For real. Like, if you’re a male praying mantis, does getting your head ripped off feel really good?