Bees and tonic immobility?

[agent A]

hey all

it's been a rough week for my creobroter pictipennis

yesterday the female grabbed the first male and he ended up mating with her but got eaten overnight

this female ate lots of bees just like my tenodera female who killed my tenodera male

do bees make female mantises more aggressive when they eat them?

also, today i found the other male on the floor of his cage in that little indent upside down at the edge of the cup, and i thought he was dying, but i put him on the lid and he gripped fine and i misted him

did he fall at night and suffer tonic immobility and that's why he was like that this morning??

 

[aNisip]

I don't think EATING bees had anything to do with it, but because bees are such active prey items when being eaten, maybe the male's movements looked like a bee's and whamo...meal time...the mantis that u say may be suffering from tonic immobility may have a deeper reason to his (no pun intended) fall....

All the best,

Andrew

 

[hibiscusmile]

no idey!

 

[Termite48]

The only reason that I know that would cause a female Creo to act more agressive is that there is a lot of nutrition in eating bees. This might have made the female Creo more active, enegetic and therefore seemed to be more agressive. Bees are good food. It is too bad that they are not bad insects. We need to promote bee populations.

 

[agent A]

ok well both r dead

the immobile one had an infection and died

at least the female got mated and they mated for about 6 hours or so...

 

[brancsikia339]

very strange. not sure what to make of it

 

[fleurdejoo]

What is tonic immobility?

 

[Rick]

Step away from google.......

 

[derryjellybies]

What is tonic immobility?

It is my understanding that tonic immobility is when an animal goes into a state of paralysis when they encounter a threat (i.e. "playing dead"). I hear the term a lot during Shark Week, but it is never fully explained in the documentaries.