Female praying mantis eats male after mating


after (and while) they mate, the female praying mantis devours the male.







Channel: Animals
Uploaded: July 9, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Author: dissotg

Length: 00:02:48
Rating: 4.66
Views: 652243

Tags: praying mantis cannibalism bugs mantid insects nature

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starswitch (November 22, 2008 at 9:49 pm)
* I've seen female mantis climb a spider web eat the spider then clamber out and clean the webbing off its feet.

* Also seen to male mantis latch on the back of a f. mantis and have a 3 way, lol, one of them must have lived, lol.
05005051 (November 20, 2008 at 2:08 pm)
Not only that, but it's where they keep one of their brains- literally. That's how they can mate headless.
vtsis (November 20, 2008 at 1:51 am)
7 hours of sex....omfg i would DIE
DisfiguredCowboy (November 19, 2008 at 3:16 pm)
Actually, I take that back.

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