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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thehelepolis" data-source="post: 349352" data-attributes="member: 11807"><p>every time i end up injuring a feeder by mistake i always end up feeding bad, and if i find some sort of bug in my house it pretty much always gets released. even then, i do still feel a bit more empathy towards predatory insects. i feel that a lot of herbivore insects like feeder roaches tend to be somewhat less intelligent than predatory insects because evolutionarily speaking it takes a lot less brainpower to munch on a plant or eat detritus under a rock than it does to actively hunt other arthropods. from my on personal experience id say that mantises and other predatory insects seem to be far more aware of their surroundings than any feeder roach. i have also done a bit of research and mantises, jumping spiders, and dragonflies seem to all have relatively larger brains than other insects, and while much of that is probably dedicated to flight coordination and vision, i do often wonder if they would also have a greater capacity for thought than a roach. i also feel this way about bees, and despite likely being great for mantids, they are so intelligent that i don't want to feed them to a mantis as it just seems cruel.</p></blockquote><p></p>