Bites

[sueb4653]

Ok I'm curious will or will not a mantis bite I've heard discussion on both sides, opinions please

 

[patrickfraser]

They can bite and may bite. Whether or not is up to the mantis. :lol:

 

[gripen]

They can and will. Some sp. more than others. Some big sp. really hurt!

 

[melano]

I'm not so sure ?!!! I think we need some volonteers (Sue for example)... let begin with a kind species...Adult female Clinia humeralis for example... I promiss I'll make a test with odontomantis (new born)

Please to film it for scientist interest !!!

 

[gripen]

I'm not so sure ?!!! I think we need some volonteers (Sue for example)... let begin with a kind species...Adult female Clinia humeralis for example... I promiss I'll make a test with odontomantis (new born)

Please to film it for scientist interest !!!

Lol

 

[sueb4653]

ME I dont think I big chicken cluck cccccccccccccluck cluck cluck :helpsmilie:

 

[sueb4653]

ok who has been bitten?

 

[gripen]

Meeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[sueb4653]

did it hurt? leave a hole etc etc

do they go voluntarily let go or did you have to force it loose

 

[angelofdeathzz]

Only been bit once, by a large Chinese adult female, she grabbed my finger with both raptors clamped down and took a quick bite, didn't hurt so bad as it just scared/startled the ba-jeebers out of me for a quick second, but I did manage to not fling her across the room.

 

[melano]

me too lol... Cilnia bite

that was the first time I feel reel pain

usually I feel funny when mantid try to eat me... but for sure they can eat a few if you leave them times... lol

 

[sueb4653]

Thats what I'm afraid of the knee jerk reaction

 

[angelofdeathzz]

If it should happen to you just touch their claws with the free hand and it should let go. Yeah, my first gut feeling was to yank my hand back in a flinging motion but I didn't, just reached in with the other hand and swore at her a bit.

 

[patrickfraser]

I have been guilty of the flinging action. Who says a fat gravid female can't fly? :lol:

 

[bobericc]

Lol

Been bit by a blue flash, left a little pink dot, felt closer to a burn, no blood though

Been nibbled on by a budwing on numerous occasions. usually mantis will crouch down and nibble on you in search of water, in this case just spray em again, right between the raptors lol.

 

[MantidLord]

I had a mantis start to "drink" on me which quickly turned into it biting me. Male adult European. Didn't hurt much but it was startling. Which is why I only let little L1s and L2s drink on my hand from now on.

 

[twolfe]

I've been pinched a few times but only bitten one time. But I don't handle the big gals (Rhombodera) very often. The mantis that bit me was a female wahlbergii. It was towards the end of her life. I was trying to help her. We were buds before that, but her personality changed in the end. It hurt for a few seconds and there was a small trickle of blood.

 

[Sneaky123]

I used to get my adult female Chinese to claw me. It would leave those little white scratch marks. A skittish just-molted male limbata clawed me and held on for a brief second. I've had an unknown start actually eating my finger, but she was really hungry/thirsty. And those are the major events of my bite log

 

[Krissim Klaw]

No ouchy bites but I have gotten a few prickly pricks from claws with my older mantises. When they get up their in age and have a harder time getting around, especially the fat females, they start using their claws like ice picks to help pull themselves up. :wheelchair: