Canabelisem!

[MANTIS DUDE]

Hey, does anyone know if chinese mantids are canabelistic or not? can they be kept together in the same cage if you feed them enof? :wacko:

 

[chrisboy101]

definate NO. that species is big on cannabalism

 

[idolomantis]

EVERY mantis can be canibalistic, however chinese will eat eachother fast

texicorns not, only in a rare ocacion.

 

[Rick]

All mantids eat each other. Especially these. Last year I found a wild adult female eating another adult female.

 

[macro junkie]

even idolomantids eat each other..iv seen pics on here before.i had 8 texas unicorns housed together with lots of food..over 1 month i was left with 6..two had been eaten.

 

[idolomantis]

even idolomantids eat each other..iv seen pics on here before.i had 8 texas unicorns housed together with lots of food..over 1 month i was left with 6..two had been eaten.

what is she eating? i know a mantis, what spieces?

 

[Rick]

Here is the adult female I found eating another adult female. The abdomen of the dead one had the ooth foam on it. Nearby was a small, just started ooth. I think she was laying her ooth and got caught by the other one.

 

[macro junkie]

Here is the adult female I found eating another adult female. The abdomen of the dead one had the ooth foam on it. Nearby was a small, just started ooth. I think she was laying her ooth and got caught by the other one.

great pics rick.

 

[macro junkie]

what is she eating?

a subadult female ant mantis that had a bad shed.

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

EVERY mantis can be canibalistic, however chinese will eat eachother fasttexicorns not, only in a rare ocacion.

Does it decrese the chance of them eeating each other if you house mabey 3 in one cage and 3 in another instead of having 6 all together in 1?

 

[OGIGA]

Hey, does anyone know if chinese mantids are canabelistic or not? can they be kept together in the same cage if you feed them enof? :wacko:

Please run a spell-check.

 

[idolomantis]

Please run a spell-check.

lmao :lol:

 

[darkspeed]

NO... If you put any together and they come in contact with one another one of them will surely die.

I know I preach alot about genetic "programming" but I kinda look at mantids and other invertibrates as robots that follow very specific protocol within their operating systems. They do everything just as mother nature programmed them to, without deviance, and rarely will you find exceptions to the norm. When it comes to canabalism, mantids simply do not distinguish between friend and foe. Only when a male is an adult will they treat another mantis as anything other than prey and predator, and only because the female lets off a special perfume to attract him. That being said, all mantids feed based on size of their prey. They stick within set parameters, and those parameters vary from species to species. They will pay no attention to food too small for their programmed parameters, and anything larger than those parameters are regarded with respect and fear. Communal species such as ghosts and gongy's are only such because their maximum size parameter is still pretty small. They hold no regard for their own species, and this can become painfully obvious when you get young and old members of the same species together. Chinese, Acromantis, and some of the more aggressive species have very large maximum size parameters, larger than that of their own bodies, so it is no problem for them to take on another member of their same age, as they will just as easily take on something 50% larger than they are.

 

[chrisboy101]

NO... If you put any together and they come in contact with one another one of them will surely die.I know I preach alot about genetic "programming" but I kinda look at mantids and other invertibrates as robots that follow very specific protocol within their operating systems. They do everything just as mother nature programmed them to, without deviance, and rarely will you find exceptions to the norm. When it comes to canabalism, mantids simply do not distinguish between friend and foe. Only when a male is an adult will they treat another mantis as anything other than prey and predator, and only because the female lets off a special perfume to attract him. That being said, all mantids feed based on size of their prey. They stick within set parameters, and those parameters vary from species to species. They will pay no attention to food too small for their programmed parameters, and anything larger than those parameters are regarded with respect and fear. Communal species such as ghosts and gongy's are only such because their maximum size parameter is still pretty small. They hold no regard for their own species, and this can become painfully obvious when you get young and old members of the same species together. Chinese, Acromantis, and some of the more aggressive species have very large maximum size parameters, larger than that of their own bodies, so it is no problem for them to take on another member of their same age, as they will just as easily take on something 50% larger than they are.

soo... basically they'll eat eachother

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

Please run a spell-check.

Sorry, lol.

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

Here is the adult female I found eating another adult female. The abdomen of the dead one had the ooth foam on it. Nearby was a small, just started ooth. I think she was laying her ooth and got caught by the other one.

Is that mantis religosa, (the one eating the ant mantis) or what is it? :wacko:

 

[idolomantis]

Is that mantis religosa, (the one eating the ant mantis) or what is it? :wacko:

why are you replyinf this one then and thats a pseudocreobotra whallbergii... i dont know the instar

 

[MANTIS DUDE]

why are you replyinf this one then and thats a pseudocreobotra whallbergii... i dont know the instar

I have NO clue what the first part of your sentance means. <_<

 

[idolomantis]

nev0rmind then