That thing about female praying mantises always eating the male was from a very bad lab study where the female mantises were basically starved before being exposed to a male. It turns out that things, when hungry, just love eating!
No it's just less likely if they are full. The reason is for nutrients for the offspring. Tarantulas are the same way usually the female will kill and eat the male. It's just if they are full sometimes they don't. Only sometimes even if they are full there is still a chance of them killing the mate. It's a guarantee source of nutrients the reason nature does it is because the success of the offspring is more important to keep the species going then to keep current ones alive as it takes 2 to make 100. This is not just with males even females will make the sacrifice like a mother spider letting her children eat her so they can have a strong start. Even a female octopus will wait right beside her eggs for years without food until they hatch then she dies from lack of nutrition. This is to help make sure the success of the offspring is high.
I will add to this as someone who actually raises Praying Mantis in captivity and breeds them (I raise wild caught nymphs to help survival rates of the native species and incubate the egg case to increase numbers of our native species, as in some places all you can find is the invasive Praying mantis now). Some species are more likely to eat their mate than others, on occasion we do observe even well fed females decapitate the male. We will often give the female a large item of food to occupy her during the mating process, and check up on them frequently (it can last a very long time, can’t watch them the whole time) may offer her more food if she finishes her original meal. Usually this works, but even if it doesn’t the males have evolved to finish the fertilizing the female. Males that survive the encounter may go on to mate a few more females if they are lucky, and if they survive all of their rendezvous they will still expire by the time morning comes. Even males who fail to find a partner in time will die, that’s just the unfortunate life of a male in the bug world. But still, to say that it is the fate of all male mantis to be eaten by his mate is just inaccurate.
@@KittinPyro thank you especially for your feedback and very particular experience. I'm just interested ; do you always feed the female when they're mating to have the survival of the male be better? Will the female actually just dump whatever she's eating and just go for the male by chance? What if the female has been fed very very well and is very satiated but given no food during the mating process. About the invasive species you are commenting on are there any special quirks to them that can be taken advantage of? Like there is a Chinese carp around the Great Lakes right now that tear up the whole bottom of rivers and lakes for breeding ruining the ecosystems and deprive all other species of the plankton and other microbes. The quirk they have is they will jump high out of the water when any noise, like an engine, disturbs the water . There was a video on this on this channel about it and it looked like people were trying all sorts of things but one was nets dragged on both sides of the boat with the opening only at the top so the only way to get in was if the fish jumped into it. The state I live in now reported sightings of the lanternfly a few years back and the only thing we can do is just crush them if we see them and nothing else.
I've raised a few mantis as a hobby (as well as ants, spiders, and other insects) and I've mated them and then raised the babies that were produced. I've successfully done this 3 times and all 3 times. The male made it. Only once the female tried to snatch the male but she missed and he got away so I immediately took him out of that cage and put him back in his own. The others stayed in the same cage until the next day because sometimes when they mate it takes hours before they detach. So I go to sleep and check them the next day. I currently have some juvenile asian jumping mantis, once they reach maturity I'm going to try them. Getting the timing right seems to be the trick.
I was attacked by a young mantis at work once. It was on a door frame and was knocked off when I opened it. As soon as the mantis hit the ground it came at me with its wings out an arms up. I tried to shoo it away with my foot and it just jumped on my boot and started climbing my pants leg. I tried to keep working but was worried that I would accidentally crush the little guy as he was making his epic climb so I put my hand out and it climbed on the back. After a few minutes of riding on my hand it started to calm down. The wings went down and it started looking around like it was interested in the view. I took it outside and almost push it off my hand because it didn't want to move.
I had a pet female praying mantis growing up. Because she lived in captivity she lived for 3 years. She was a massive one. I put some males in her cage and she mated and ate them. When her babies hatched, they were so small they could easily escape the cage.... oh those poor babies getting vacuumed up by my mom still hurts my soul...
Yeah, the babies are tiny! I think that’s why breeders try to remove the egg sack before they hatch and put them in an escape-proof container. Same with spiders and scorpions. It can be funny to watch a breeder try to separate babies into individual containers to sell them. Frustrating for the breeder, I’m sure.
@@logancook7687 Hi, I learned a lot about them but some of the things in this post I didn't know of. If a mantis can secure its victim in its claws, it usually wins the battle. They have to be careful with venomous wasps and hornets. If they get stung, they lose.
Lol was actually learning somthing and was all quiet beside sleeping gf till the lifeless headless body fell and made that noise.. haha couldn't hold that laugh in. 😂
When I lived in New Jersey I had vegetable and flower gardens. I bought 3 praying mantis egg cases and placed then around. They hatched and grew into big 5-inch long green mantises. Probably the entire neighborhood had them. One day, my husband saw one of them sitting on a fence post. He caught a grasshopper and offered it to the mantis which snatched it right out of his fingers. The thing about a mantis that gives me the creeps is how it turns its head and looks right at you with those cold eyes and you know if it was big enough it would eat you too. When they fly they look as big as a robin and their wings are loud.
When I was younger, I was going to eat with some friend at a local Mexican restaurant. After we got done eating, I noticed a a Mantis close to my car. I tried to push the little thing away from my car and next thing I know, it's chasing me around the parking lot. I sat still for a moment and it tried to crawl up my pants leg. I decided to get in my car and stay away from the little demon. Never messed with a mantis again because of the fear of getting beat up, lol.
Lol! We had one on the hand rail going to our (2nd floor) apartment, they were HUGE (one of the BIG green ones that have a leafy 'veined' pattern). There are some rowdy kids (from super young to teen) that hang around in the stairwell often, so I knew I needed to move it to prevent it from getting played with or killed (stepped on by accident, or getting squashed by someone afraid of it, which, given it's size, was highly likely). It was actually very chill... I went & got a big cup & a piece of paper, then just gently urged it in. It just...looked up at me with those eyes...I went to the front garden & released it in a bush, it just walked right out & went about it's business. I'm so glad it didn't go all attack mode on me, hilarious as that sounds. XD
I had a 5" long mantis I had found in early May when it was walking in my 2nd floor kitchen window, I put her in a 20 gal aquarium with a screen lid I used for snakes, so it was a habitat, I put potted plants and 2 water features. I kept crickets for reptile food so she had plenty of food, yet she was in a constant hunter Killer mode. If I put 10 crickets in at 10:pm, by 8:am she would have hunted them down and chewed off all their heads. I actually tuned my night vision goggles for close proximity and watched her many nights. I had found a 2" male mantis on the rose bush in the back yard one day in august and put him in with her, after a couple weeks he finally got lucky and tagged a lil tail, if you know what I mean, and she ate his head off immediately. He kept humping her though and she wasn't interested in eating any more of him. When he had pumped himself dry he just fell off. When late September came round I put her back on the window sill where I found her thinking she would walk out but she turned around and came in the house and walked around for 3 weeks or so. Then one morning while I was having coffee she walked out the window, up the wall and was gone. Now what did I learn from the mantis,,,know your move, own it,,,be patient, sometimes slow is fast,,,strike with pinpoint accuracy with a finishing move,,,be merciless,,,the beauty of independent motion,,,if your on a mission, even if you are unavoidably detained, complete the mission,,,nature is merciless so you had best be ready for anything and everything, adapt, improvise and overcome,,,Semper Fidelis If female mantis were 2 feet long and bigger we would be on the menu I'm sure
Mantises are one of my favorite insects. I love seeing them prowl around my garden and fruit trees. A very beneficial insect for gardeners! 😁 Lady bugs are high on my list as well.
Speaking of hair worms, have you guys heard about '' Deranged ''? It is a South Korean horror film from 2012, about hair worms using people as their hosts.
6:49 it’s odd that people would even consider the possibility that insects don’t feel pain. Of course they feel pain. How else would they avoid damage? They seem to also exhibit fear. Ants and many other bugs go into panic mode if you mess with them. They don’t just ignore you. They move sporadically and look clumsy.
They feel in a much different and far more simplistic way. It is all survival instincts for them as opposed to a conscious response. They do have some "thought" but are not capable of higher brain functions and complex emotions.
@@buckeyehockey1979 I agree. But I’d imagine pain and pleasure are simple emotions with simple and fundamental reactions. We have an equal stake in wanting to live. And an equal motivation to avoid pain and death. We can’t go in a bugs head, and experience their life, so we can’t know which animals experience consciousness at a high or low level. But it seems like a pretty safe bet to give insects a best guess of a low level of consciousness. Still, though I believe they have fear, and pain.
Been watching you guys for a couple years, now, and it just occurred to me I wasn't subscribed and should be. Always fun content here! While bugs aren't really my jam, it's fascinating to see how mantis' actually behave. Seeing some of the science that's used to determine certain aspects of their biology was my favorite part. Please keep those little nuggets coming!
‘Man really is quite insane: he creates gods by the dozen but couldn’t create a worm’ Mark Twain (May have worded it slightly wrong feel free to correct me)
Mantises are one of my very favorite insect to photograph! I find them fascinating! And its ironic that my very favorite of all are tarantulas, with which the males often become the after love snacks as well! Could this explain why I am forever single???🤔
A mantis can survive this worm parasite even though the worm is often much bigger than the matis itself.. Other insects usually die after the parasite leave it's host in the water.. They die either by drowning or by the damage caused by the worm because the worm feeds on the fat of the host.. Praying mantises are really very fascinating animals.. And the male eating thing makes sense.. A study has shown that the female then has a lot more protein available for the eggs if she has eaten the male before and the males offer themselves to the females to eat.. They don't defend themselves against being eaten.. On the contrary they position themselves specifically so that the female finds it easier to eat
Mantises can in fact hiss as a part of their threat display. The sound doesn’t come from their mouths, but rather from spiracles along their abdomen. So yes, they make scary sounds. Source: One of my ornery mantises, but you can also find it on RUclips
I handle mantis all the time. They aren’t all the intelligent. If you hold your hand out and a bit above them, they will crawl onto your hand without issue and they will just chill on you.
I saw a brown praying mantis in the USA a few days ago. I thought it was cool. I don’t see them nearly as often as other bugs. Also I’m pretty sure y’all showed a clip of Mantis from Kung Fu Panda. I like that movie. Also I think there’s like 2,400 species of praying mantis. It’s interesting seeing ones from different places. You showed a white one and a blue one. I usually see green ones. Cool video.
When I was a kid and I learned the word _bombardier,_ we were taught to pronounce it bom-ba-DEER. Now I hear people pronouncing it "bom-bar-dee-ay." You pronounced it like it's spelled.
I raised Chinese mantids as a teenager, and learned allot about them. one of the caught a yellow jacket and wisely ate around the poison sac in their stinger.
I'm really glad you mentioned the invasive South African mantis that was introduced to my country; I became really interested in keeping mantises as pets several years ago and started researching them. I found that the species I was familiar with wasn't native and that during my life here (parents moved country a lot in my childhood and teens) I had actually never seen a native NZ mantis. I learned all about their different habits and characteristics; such as how SA mantids will hangout on the bottom side of leaves and natives on the top, how the shape of their thorax and neck are different, how the native one has a big purple blue patch on the inside of it's forelegs, etc and also what you mentioned: how native males are more attracted to the females of the invasive species and how the females are more likely to eat the natives than their own species. I'm disappointed to have never seen a native mantis but I still hold out hopw. Issue is that the native female's ooth hatches far fewer nymphs than the SA female, and they are everywhere! I see the SA mantids all the time. The oothecas also look quite different and so far I've only seen the invasive ones. They are often found on houses and in urban areas whereas the native ones are found in the bush.
I was minding my own business a few days ago and a mantis, out of nowhere, landed on top of my phone and a small toolcase i keep on my desk, looked like it was about 3 inches long or so. It climbed up my wall and just sat there, watching a video I had playing on my computer, I left to go back to work and when I got back home the mantis was gone, still have no idea how it got into the room in the first place
As a mantis keeper I have to inform you @WATOP as it's said a lot for some reason. Females do not die after laying their ootheca, in fact most females lay anywhere from 4-8 or more ootheca in their adulthood. They will also lay ootheca even if they have never mated with a male, however these are infertile and contain no eggs. The ootheca looks like a foam like substance that cases the eggs and becomes very hard and solid within 24 hours. Ootheca are programmed to respond to temperature, so if you keep them in cold temperatures, they will not hatch, and if you keep them in constantly ideal warm temperatures they will hatch far sooner than normal. Most of your mantis facts here are spot on though. good video.
Its crazy because this house i used to live in. So my backyard had no grass just all types of weeds that i dont even know the names of. Anyway...first year i lived there i wasn't there for several weeks in the summer and it didn't get mowed. So i came back mowed all the different weed grass,but left a whole lane by the fence that divided my neighbors yard. And let it grow and mowed the rest weekly or whatever...so a month later we got 100s , maybe 1000s of Mantis..big, small, green, dark brown ones. It was in Jersey, close to the shore. Whats crazy is i talked to multiple neighbors and asked if they had any..they said no. Ive only seen a few dozen over my life in NJ...so seeing all them in my backyard..it was weird to me. I wanna say there was a law in NJ that you couldn't kill them? Might be one of those Mandela Effect things though... 💯
I hate insects... I've resisted watching this for so long... Since it's 10am and sunny out, I'm gonna watch it. I couldn't watch this at night for fear of nightmares.
1:35 "horizontal" polarization is probably not the best word to describe it since at normal incidence all light will have polarization parallel to the water-air boundary. You most likely mean "transverse electric" as opposed to "transverse magnetic" which are proper terms used in optics.
About a year ago flying mantis somehow managed to get to my apartment on the 16th floor. He was just chilling near the window. He was a little defensive at first, but i slowly touched him with my finger and he was like: "Oh, ok". After a few minutes i gained his trust enough for him to climb on my hand and refuse to leave my house. It took surprisingly long time to convince him to leave, he was clinging like a little kid. Somehow every type of bird that lives here and every insect manages to find its way into my house. Not that i complain, it's actually pretty nice to have some interaction with them 🙂
I still love that meme i saw years back where it says: "me and da bois" then it shows 6 different mantises doing their threat poses. shit is hilarious but damn awsome, Mantis' are fucking amazing insects
I knew there was a reason why i loved ants. They just understand when its time to put a mantis out of business 4-5x their size. While simultaneously understanding when its "left over" night.
Yeah, it can be hard to tell what kind of little species the egg sacks are unless you know what they look like and use a camera or magnifier to take a closer look.
Never seen a mantis eat its own limbs just for nutrients. It happens rarely if there's something wrong with the limb like a spreading disease. I did have one mantis that was crazy, something was defiantly wrong with it and it ate both its arms for no reason. But they cant grow back their limbs before the next molt. It depends on the species but even the ones with fast regen will take a couple molts to regrow a limb and the regorwn limb will usually be smaller. They only molt 6 or 7 times till adult so regrowing a limb is like a one time thing they can do. They wont just eat them if their hungry.
1. You can buy praying mantises as garden insects, just like you can buy ladybugs, but make sure you’re getting a native local species and that it is legal to release them. 2. You can buy praying mantises as exotic pets. Please do your research before getting one! Do not believe everything the pet store like Petco tells you able them-get your info from a mantis specialist and consider purchasing from a reputable breeder. Just like how the Petco beta fish are often sick or dying, lesser known pets are often not in great shape. Reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates often have overlap among knowledgeable breeders and keepers and the field of captive care for these animals has been growing tremendously over the last decade or two. If you watch some of the big reptile channels like Snake Discovery and Reptilatus, they also keep invertebrates like tarantulas, scorpions, spiders, mantises, etc. They create bio active enclosures, which are better for pets that live in terrariums. They often recommend fellow channels that specialize in different species.
When I was a kid, one of our neighbors bought a Christmas Tree that had a mantis egg sack. Their tree was decorated with babies come Christmas morning. 😂
That thing about female praying mantises always eating the male was from a very bad lab study where the female mantises were basically starved before being exposed to a male. It turns out that things, when hungry, just love eating!
No it's just less likely if they are full. The reason is for nutrients for the offspring. Tarantulas are the same way usually the female will kill and eat the male. It's just if they are full sometimes they don't. Only sometimes even if they are full there is still a chance of them killing the mate. It's a guarantee source of nutrients the reason nature does it is because the success of the offspring is more important to keep the species going then to keep current ones alive as it takes 2 to make 100. This is not just with males even females will make the sacrifice like a mother spider letting her children eat her so they can have a strong start. Even a female octopus will wait right beside her eggs for years without food until they hatch then she dies from lack of nutrition. This is to help make sure the success of the offspring is high.
I will add to this as someone who actually raises Praying Mantis in captivity and breeds them (I raise wild caught nymphs to help survival rates of the native species and incubate the egg case to increase numbers of our native species, as in some places all you can find is the invasive Praying mantis now).
Some species are more likely to eat their mate than others, on occasion we do observe even well fed females decapitate the male. We will often give the female a large item of food to occupy her during the mating process, and check up on them frequently (it can last a very long time, can’t watch them the whole time) may offer her more food if she finishes her original meal. Usually this works, but even if it doesn’t the males have evolved to finish the fertilizing the female. Males that survive the encounter may go on to mate a few more females if they are lucky, and if they survive all of their rendezvous they will still expire by the time morning comes. Even males who fail to find a partner in time will die, that’s just the unfortunate life of a male in the bug world. But still, to say that it is the fate of all male mantis to be eaten by his mate is just inaccurate.
@@KittinPyro thank you especially for your feedback and very particular experience.
I'm just interested ; do you always feed the female when they're mating to have the survival of the male be better?
Will the female actually just dump whatever she's eating and just go for the male by chance?
What if the female has been fed very very well and is very satiated but given no food during the mating process.
About the invasive species you are commenting on are there any special quirks to them that can be taken advantage of? Like there is a Chinese carp around the Great Lakes right now that tear up the whole bottom of rivers and lakes for breeding ruining the ecosystems and deprive all other species of the plankton and other microbes. The quirk they have is they will jump high out of the water when any noise, like an engine, disturbs the water . There was a video on this on this channel about it and it looked like people were trying all sorts of things but one was nets dragged on both sides of the boat with the opening only at the top so the only way to get in was if the fish jumped into it.
The state I live in now reported sightings of the lanternfly a few years back and the only thing we can do is just crush them if we see them and nothing else.
Very interested in the response
Ur a smartie good 4 u cause my head has no brain oh i forgot i have a peanut brain
When you lose one head, the other one kicks in 😂
Ha! Indeed!
This is how you DON'T get a Darwin award: get your head bitten off, but still manage to mate afterwards.
my exes always bit my head off 😈🤣
The second head took over
I've raised a few mantis as a hobby (as well as ants, spiders, and other insects) and I've mated them and then raised the babies that were produced. I've successfully done this 3 times and all 3 times. The male made it. Only once the female tried to snatch the male but she missed and he got away so I immediately took him out of that cage and put him back in his own. The others stayed in the same cage until the next day because sometimes when they mate it takes hours before they detach. So I go to sleep and check them the next day. I currently have some juvenile asian jumping mantis, once they reach maturity I'm going to try them. Getting the timing right seems to be the trick.
Or feed her a big meal just before you introduce the male?
Must be tricky to mate a mantis
@@jeremywanner4526it’s tricky to mate anything
@@dukeofthedance8062 lmao
@@dukeofthedance8062 Or pigeons, or mice.
I was attacked by a young mantis at work once. It was on a door frame and was knocked off when I opened it. As soon as the mantis hit the ground it came at me with its wings out an arms up. I tried to shoo it away with my foot and it just jumped on my boot and started climbing my pants leg. I tried to keep working but was worried that I would accidentally crush the little guy as he was making his epic climb so I put my hand out and it climbed on the back. After a few minutes of riding on my hand it started to calm down. The wings went down and it started looking around like it was interested in the view. I took it outside and almost push it off my hand because it didn't want to move.
Mantis was trying to slice your throat but than was like: wait, that's actually a buddy. 😅
noooo the mantis was pushed away from his fren…
You handled the situation better than I could 😅
Sounds like a frightening experience
It going up your pants and it was flying at you was the most scariest part😭
I had a pet female praying mantis growing up. Because she lived in captivity she lived for 3 years. She was a massive one. I put some males in her cage and she mated and ate them. When her babies hatched, they were so small they could easily escape the cage.... oh those poor babies getting vacuumed up by my mom still hurts my soul...
Oh no! That's terrible, not the vacuum! I'm so sorry that happened.
Yeah, the babies are tiny! I think that’s why breeders try to remove the egg sack before they hatch and put them in an escape-proof container. Same with spiders and scorpions. It can be funny to watch a breeder try to separate babies into individual containers to sell them. Frustrating for the breeder, I’m sure.
Why didn't you put the babies outside?
females DIE after laying eggs .....she must have only had babies one time in that 3+ yrs LMAO
>I put some males in her cage and she mated and ate them
So you starved the female and trapped the males. Kindly don't ever breed insects again
I have loved mantises for 70 years and I learned a lot more from this, thanks.
Mantises taught me how to read and the true meaning of forgiveness.
@@mondoseguendo6113how exactly did a Mantis teach you how to read?
For 70 years and you didn't know about this?
@@logancook7687 Hi, I learned a lot about them but some of the things in this post I didn't know of. If a mantis can secure its victim in its claws, it usually wins the battle. They have to be careful with venomous wasps and hornets. If they get stung, they lose.
The metal pipe caught me off guard
Same here 😂😂
For whom the pipe falls
"Even the lack of a head doesn't stop them." ...sounds like some humans
Male mantises really took “thinking with your other head” to another level
2:33
Idk why but that sound effect to the lifeless body dropping was just hilarious
Lol!
Same, I lost it lmfao
Lol was actually learning somthing and was all quiet beside sleeping gf till the lifeless headless body fell and made that noise.. haha couldn't hold that laugh in. 😂
When I lived in New Jersey I had vegetable and flower gardens. I bought 3 praying mantis egg cases and placed then around. They hatched and grew into big 5-inch long green mantises. Probably the entire neighborhood had them. One day, my husband saw one of them sitting on a fence post. He caught a grasshopper and offered it to the mantis which snatched it right out of his fingers. The thing about a mantis that gives me the creeps is how it turns its head and looks right at you with those cold eyes and you know if it was big enough it would eat you too. When they fly they look as big as a robin and their wings are loud.
Thank you SO MUCH for toning Steve’s voice down. I see you 😊
"And finally, death from hypothermia"
RUclips captions: *APPLAUSE*
When I was younger, I was going to eat with some friend at a local Mexican restaurant. After we got done eating, I noticed a a Mantis close to my car. I tried to push the little thing away from my car and next thing I know, it's chasing me around the parking lot. I sat still for a moment and it tried to crawl up my pants leg. I decided to get in my car and stay away from the little demon. Never messed with a mantis again because of the fear of getting beat up, lol.
Lol! We had one on the hand rail going to our (2nd floor) apartment, they were HUGE (one of the BIG green ones that have a leafy 'veined' pattern). There are some rowdy kids (from super young to teen) that hang around in the stairwell often, so I knew I needed to move it to prevent it from getting played with or killed (stepped on by accident, or getting squashed by someone afraid of it, which, given it's size, was highly likely).
It was actually very chill... I went & got a big cup & a piece of paper, then just gently urged it in. It just...looked up at me with those eyes...I went to the front garden & released it in a bush, it just walked right out & went about it's business. I'm so glad it didn't go all attack mode on me, hilarious as that sounds. XD
Now I believe my kid when he told me a Mantis was chasing him.
@@martinpena9932it happens! A HUGE one chased me across a parking lot after one of my coworkers aggravated it.
A mantis will square up every time😂. Happened to me in my apartment. I insulted him by freaking out and he proceeded to charge at me.
@@solsirhibragusowl2221 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had a 5" long mantis I had found in early May when it was walking in my 2nd floor kitchen window, I put her in a 20 gal aquarium with a screen lid I used for snakes, so it was a habitat, I put potted plants and 2 water features. I kept crickets for reptile food so she had plenty of food, yet she was in a constant hunter Killer mode. If I put 10 crickets in at 10:pm, by 8:am she would have hunted them down and chewed off all their heads. I actually tuned my night vision goggles for close proximity and watched her many nights. I had found a 2" male mantis on the rose bush in the back yard one day in august and put him in with her, after a couple weeks he finally got lucky and tagged a lil tail, if you know what I mean, and she ate his head off immediately. He kept humping her though and she wasn't interested in eating any more of him. When he had pumped himself dry he just fell off. When late September came round I put her back on the window sill where I found her thinking she would walk out but she turned around and came in the house and walked around for 3 weeks or so. Then one morning while I was having coffee she walked out the window, up the wall and was gone.
Now what did I learn from the mantis,,,know your move, own it,,,be patient, sometimes slow is fast,,,strike with pinpoint accuracy with a finishing move,,,be merciless,,,the beauty of independent motion,,,if your on a mission, even if you are unavoidably detained, complete the mission,,,nature is merciless so you had best be ready for anything and everything, adapt, improvise and overcome,,,Semper Fidelis
If female mantis were 2 feet long and bigger we would be on the menu I'm sure
Semper fidelis! LOL you sound like a military mind.
Yeah great now I will have nightmare of 2 ft long mantis eating me alive.
@@boss_nikoDunno, a 2 foot long one still probably wouldn't be dangerous to adult humans anyway.
@boss_niko
I take it you've never seen Peter Jackson's King Kong? The giant insects scene gave me nightmares when I saw that. Very unsettling.
Slow is fast. Fast is smooth.
LOL That metal pipe sound effect near 2:16 tho 😂
Mantises are one of my favorite insects. I love seeing them prowl around my garden and fruit trees. A very beneficial insect for gardeners! 😁 Lady bugs are high on my list as well.
That impaling adaption in 13:35 is f***ing terrifyingly! As if spikes weren't enough, now they have daggers!
Starship Troopers!
Speaking of hair worms, have you guys heard about '' Deranged ''? It is a South Korean horror film from 2012, about hair worms using people as their hosts.
that mantis that attacked that beetle must've been like:
"OO, OO, THAT STINGS!"
2:29 "So you see the females have the habit of chomping off male's head! *Metal pipe sound* lol😂 best part!
6:49 it’s odd that people would even consider the possibility that insects don’t feel pain. Of course they feel pain. How else would they avoid damage? They seem to also exhibit fear. Ants and many other bugs go into panic mode if you mess with them. They don’t just ignore you. They move sporadically and look clumsy.
Pain is not a physical reaction, it's an emotional one. You can feel aversion without pain.
They feel pain far far differently than we do, however, and it's probably something we don't even experience, nor can relate to.
They feel in a much different and far more simplistic way. It is all survival instincts for them as opposed to a conscious response. They do have some "thought" but are not capable of higher brain functions and complex emotions.
@@buckeyehockey1979 I agree. But I’d imagine pain and pleasure are simple emotions with simple and fundamental reactions. We have an equal stake in wanting to live. And an equal motivation to avoid pain and death. We can’t go in a bugs head, and experience their life, so we can’t know which animals experience consciousness at a high or low level. But it seems like a pretty safe bet to give insects a best guess of a low level of consciousness. Still, though I believe they have fear, and pain.
@@BenjaminWalburnPain is VERY much a physical reaction when it comes to the sensation of being damaged/hurt by an object or organism
fun fact
the bug that falls victim to a hairworm can get away scot-free if it manages to swim out
meaning if the worm leaves the body and the insect is able to swim out after?
Male Mantis: "Doesn't Matter, Had Seex"
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Male Mantis_07:”Ah, who needs life, anyway.”😂
The metal pipe had me weak XD
I saw a 9 inch long praying mantis in California, once.
Bug life is brutal 💀
Fr💀
In bug world the males are the ones without rights 😝
Better than dating.
2:33 Ayo chill 😭😭😭 my guy got bodied
0:07 the mantis is like "oh shit that's hot" 😂
Imagine eating some of these bugs and getting a hair worm or 50 in your system!
So much for eating insects!
Been watching you guys for a couple years, now, and it just occurred to me I wasn't subscribed and should be. Always fun content here!
While bugs aren't really my jam, it's fascinating to see how mantis' actually behave. Seeing some of the science that's used to determine certain aspects of their biology was my favorite part. Please keep those little nuggets coming!
Same
@@DMBlade4 Why would you make accusations without receipts?
im losing it at the mantises with 3D glasses on
It's 2023 and we're just realizing that insects which are living beings and experience pain? Well no kidding!
Fantastic program.
Very interesting and that makes it even more because of the humor of both of you.❤😂😂😂
#1. Losing your virginity also means losing your head.
I guess they just really like heads😂
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So no head?
Luke's Bugs is a young kid who breeds, raises, and sells mantids if anyone is actually interested. Really cool little guys 😊
I’ve seen him through other animal channels like Snake Discovery, not sure why I haven’t watched his yet since I like mantises so much!
@@kellybraun7048 I haven't watched his videos either. I only know of him and his mantis breeding because of Snake Discovery as well.
"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
Tentomon:”And I took that personally “
‘Man really is quite insane: he creates gods by the dozen but couldn’t create a worm’ Mark Twain
(May have worded it slightly wrong feel free to correct me)
Mantises are one of my very favorite insect to photograph! I find them fascinating! And its ironic that my very favorite of all are tarantulas, with which the males often become the after love snacks as well!
Could this explain why I am forever single???🤔
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2:34 got me because that metal sound falling
Me: wanting to be able to sleep tonight
RUclips recommendations: haha thats cute.
"The worst she can do is say no"
"The group chat of our humans being leaked"
Let's go see the females an last time buddys, we are not ready but they are also not ready
I love your channel. I always learn something new.
A mantis can survive this worm parasite even though the worm is often much bigger than the matis itself.. Other insects usually die after the parasite leave it's host in the water.. They die either by drowning or by the damage caused by the worm because the worm feeds on the fat of the host.. Praying mantises are really very fascinating animals.. And the male eating thing makes sense.. A study has shown that the female then has a lot more protein available for the eggs if she has eaten the male before and the males offer themselves to the females to eat.. They don't defend themselves against being eaten.. On the contrary they position themselves specifically so that the female finds it easier to eat
Mantises can in fact hiss as a part of their threat display. The sound doesn’t come from their mouths, but rather from spiracles along their abdomen. So yes, they make scary sounds. Source: One of my ornery mantises, but you can also find it on RUclips
2:33 😂 the way he fell!
I handle mantis all the time. They aren’t all the intelligent. If you hold your hand out and a bit above them, they will crawl onto your hand without issue and they will just chill on you.
2:32 I lost it at this part. 🤣🤣🤣
I learned multiple new things today all in one go!
"Bomb-bar-dee-year" beetle lmao
😂😂😂 Lol!!! The glass breaking sound after she bit off his head @2:25 took me out!!!
I saw a brown praying mantis in the USA a few days ago. I thought it was cool. I don’t see them nearly as often as other bugs. Also I’m pretty sure y’all showed a clip of Mantis from Kung Fu Panda. I like that movie. Also I think there’s like 2,400 species of praying mantis. It’s interesting seeing ones from different places. You showed a white one and a blue one. I usually see green ones. Cool video.
Headless horseman sound like some of my friends from college after a few drinks.
When I was a kid and I learned the word _bombardier,_ we were taught to pronounce it bom-ba-DEER. Now I hear people pronouncing it "bom-bar-dee-ay." You pronounced it like it's spelled.
Bombardier Beatle: “Say hello to my little friend.”
I raised Chinese mantids as a teenager, and learned allot about them. one of the caught a yellow jacket and wisely ate around the poison sac in their stinger.
It's a brutal life. Yet they're still here.
"Hey, what if we made tiny 3-D glasses for that praying mantis"
The thought of a female mantis eating your head off must have made you mask up.😂. Scary
I'm really glad you mentioned the invasive South African mantis that was introduced to my country; I became really interested in keeping mantises as pets several years ago and started researching them. I found that the species I was familiar with wasn't native and that during my life here (parents moved country a lot in my childhood and teens) I had actually never seen a native NZ mantis. I learned all about their different habits and characteristics; such as how SA mantids will hangout on the bottom side of leaves and natives on the top, how the shape of their thorax and neck are different, how the native one has a big purple blue patch on the inside of it's forelegs, etc and also what you mentioned: how native males are more attracted to the females of the invasive species and how the females are more likely to eat the natives than their own species. I'm disappointed to have never seen a native mantis but I still hold out hopw. Issue is that the native female's ooth hatches far fewer nymphs than the SA female, and they are everywhere! I see the SA mantids all the time. The oothecas also look quite different and so far I've only seen the invasive ones. They are often found on houses and in urban areas whereas the native ones are found in the bush.
2:33 my humor is broken plz send help
"Damn nature you scary."
Ants, the most powerful colony ever existed to wipe anything off
the way this guy narrates is mesmerizing
HAD ME WHEEZING 2:31
The man who never took off his covid mask.
Hey now, hes saving the world and people around him lol
Some will be wearing them for the rest of their lives
I had to pause as soon as I saw "the mask"... I all of a sudden don't care to watch any further... go figure. 🙁
Masks were around before covid. It's probably just a style choice and to keep his face a bit of a mystery. It's not that deep.
@@jasonmcclellan9183shame that you figured to stop watching interesting insect facts because of something that didn't matter if he wore one or not.
The worms had me crawling out of my skin.
I was minding my own business a few days ago and a mantis, out of nowhere, landed on top of my phone and a small toolcase i keep on my desk, looked like it was about 3 inches long or so. It climbed up my wall and just sat there, watching a video I had playing on my computer, I left to go back to work and when I got back home the mantis was gone, still have no idea how it got into the room in the first place
I saw that impaling behavior in an old sci-fi movie on Mystery Science Theater 3000.... I'm pretty sure that's where the mantises got the idea.
2:33 metal pipe sound effect
"Traumatic Reality of Being a Mantis"
Scyther!
That was such an interesting video. I thoroughly enjoyed that
2:33 BRO THAT MADE LAUGH SO HARD💀💀💀💀💀💀
I used to keep Manti as pets as a kid. I would never kill one, they're fantastic.😊
Bro I found more interesting that intro where you’re talking crystal clear with the gym face-mask on. That’s freaking hilarious.
2:41 rip headphone users lol.
As a mantis keeper I have to inform you @WATOP as it's said a lot for some reason. Females do not die after laying their ootheca, in fact most females lay anywhere from 4-8 or more ootheca in their adulthood. They will also lay ootheca even if they have never mated with a male, however these are infertile and contain no eggs. The ootheca looks like a foam like substance that cases the eggs and becomes very hard and solid within 24 hours. Ootheca are programmed to respond to temperature, so if you keep them in cold temperatures, they will not hatch, and if you keep them in constantly ideal warm temperatures they will hatch far sooner than normal. Most of your mantis facts here are spot on though. good video.
Its crazy because this house i used to live in. So my backyard had no grass just all types of weeds that i dont even know the names of. Anyway...first year i lived there i wasn't there for several weeks in the summer and it didn't get mowed. So i came back mowed all the different weed grass,but left a whole lane by the fence that divided my neighbors yard. And let it grow and mowed the rest weekly or whatever...so a month later we got 100s , maybe 1000s of Mantis..big, small, green, dark brown ones. It was in Jersey, close to the shore. Whats crazy is i talked to multiple neighbors and asked if they had any..they said no. Ive only seen a few dozen over my life in NJ...so seeing all them in my backyard..it was weird to me.
I wanna say there was a law in NJ that you couldn't kill them? Might be one of those Mandela Effect things though... 💯
I love the metal pipe cameo
That was very informative and interesting. Thank you !🐱
Metal pipe got me🤣🤣🤣🤣 2:31
I am totally grossed out - but needed to see it.
I hate insects... I've resisted watching this for so long... Since it's 10am and sunny out, I'm gonna watch it. I couldn't watch this at night for fear of nightmares.
1:35 "horizontal" polarization is probably not the best word to describe it since at normal incidence all light will have polarization parallel to the water-air boundary. You most likely mean "transverse electric" as opposed to "transverse magnetic" which are proper terms used in optics.
About a year ago flying mantis somehow managed to get to my apartment on the 16th floor. He was just chilling near the window. He was a little defensive at first, but i slowly touched him with my finger and he was like: "Oh, ok". After a few minutes i gained his trust enough for him to climb on my hand and refuse to leave my house. It took surprisingly long time to convince him to leave, he was clinging like a little kid. Somehow every type of bird that lives here and every insect manages to find its way into my house. Not that i complain, it's actually pretty nice to have some interaction with them 🙂
home boy still wearing a face mask 😷
2:33 help, the falling mantis with metal pipe falling sounds its absolutely hallarious💀💀💀
I still love that meme i saw years back where it says: "me and da bois" then it shows 6 different mantises doing their threat poses. shit is hilarious but damn awsome, Mantis' are fucking amazing insects
I knew there was a reason why i loved ants. They just understand when its time to put a mantis out of business 4-5x their size. While simultaneously understanding when its "left over" night.
Not drown, dunk is a better/kinder word
You can buy the eggs at nursery or home depot/ lowes center around early spring time for a few bucks.
Bugs can feel pain, they have a nervous system. Any stimulation to this system can ride from pleasure to pain. You can pet a bug.
I laughed when he put Minecraft sounds when he showed them eating lol😂
OOF!
4:47 wait, is this an mantis egg??? I've found some of these, and thought it was spiders or butterflies!
Yeah, it can be hard to tell what kind of little species the egg sacks are unless you know what they look like and use a camera or magnifier to take a closer look.
Never seen a mantis eat its own limbs just for nutrients. It happens rarely if there's something wrong with the limb like a spreading disease. I did have one mantis that was crazy, something was defiantly wrong with it and it ate both its arms for no reason. But they cant grow back their limbs before the next molt. It depends on the species but even the ones with fast regen will take a couple molts to regrow a limb and the regorwn limb will usually be smaller. They only molt 6 or 7 times till adult so regrowing a limb is like a one time thing they can do. They wont just eat them if their hungry.
That mantis in the thumbnail's got some beautiful lashes
1. You can buy praying mantises as garden insects, just like you can buy ladybugs, but make sure you’re getting a native local species and that it is legal to release them.
2. You can buy praying mantises as exotic pets. Please do your research before getting one! Do not believe everything the pet store like Petco tells you able them-get your info from a mantis specialist and consider purchasing from a reputable breeder. Just like how the Petco beta fish are often sick or dying, lesser known pets are often not in great shape.
Reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates often have overlap among knowledgeable breeders and keepers and the field of captive care for these animals has been growing tremendously over the last decade or two. If you watch some of the big reptile channels like Snake Discovery and Reptilatus, they also keep invertebrates like tarantulas, scorpions, spiders, mantises, etc. They create bio active enclosures, which are better for pets that live in terrariums. They often recommend fellow channels that specialize in different species.
Always love the content
Beautiful mantis.
When I was a kid, one of our neighbors bought a Christmas Tree that had a mantis egg sack. Their tree was decorated with babies come Christmas morning. 😂