Exploded mantis

[nhaverland413]

Bugs have more primitive systems then we do, so yes, cutting off their heads will leave them still alive for several minutes to several months depending on what bug you're talking about.Have you noticed how crickets always struggle, even if they are half eaten by a mantis? They have primitive minds. The only thing they think is to eat, survive, breed. No bug wants to die, they would probably rather a slow death then a forced one. They want to live no matter what happens to them, it's just the way that the natural bug instinct works. At least, in my opinion that is the way it works. And in nature, there isn't a 'quick-and-painless' way of dying for a crippled mantis.

Yes, I have noticed how most insects react this way. But I had always been taught that, though though the lil guy was still moving didn't mean he was alive, it was merely the deaththrows.

 

[asdsdf]

Yes, I have noticed how most insects react this way. But I had always been taught that, though though the lil guy was still moving didn't mean he was alive, it was merely the deaththrows.

Humans twitch sometimes when they receive a quick death. :blink:

 

[Sparky]

Bugs have more primitive systems then we do, so yes, cutting off their heads will leave them still alive for several minutes to several months depending on what bug you're talking about.Have you noticed how crickets always struggle, even if they are half eaten by a mantis? They have primitive minds. The only thing they think is to eat, survive, breed. No bug wants to die, they would probably rather a slow death then a forced one. They want to live no matter what happens to them, it's just the way that the natural bug instinct works. At least, in my opinion that is the way it works. And in nature, there isn't a 'quick-and-painless' way of dying for a crippled mantis.

My point exactly.

Yes, I have noticed how most insects react this way. But I had always been taught that, though though the lil guy was still moving didn't mean he was alive, it was merely the deaththrows.

But what about the cockroach?

 

[Mantida]

But what about the cockroach?

Sparky's right, they can live for months without their heads and they only die of starvation and thirst, not because of the actual injury (crushed head). And mantids are related to cockroaches.

 

[Mantis Keeper]

Sorry if this is an old topic, but I figured I'd add something. Insects basically have only a brain stem, which controls basic functions like breathing and instincual stuff, little memory. They still have signals that travel through their body from their "control center". If you look closer at the crickets you feed your mantids you will notice after the head and such is eaten, the cricket only "moves" while the mantis is chewing near the center of the body, if the mandables on the mantis stop moving, so does the movement of the cricket. The moving legs is only a response to the activity of their "nerves" as the mantis chews. The reason cockroaches can live so long after losing a head is that they have two control centers, and thus can still use all their basic bodily functions, it's just that without a head, they can no longer eat or drink.

 

[OGIGA]

If I majored in entomology or something related, I can probably give a better answer. But based on my AP Biology class in high school, insects have a nerve network known as the ganglia. I don't know about the brain stem thing. Anyone educated in this field want to help us?

 

[Morpheus uk]

Lol Mythbusters is a great program,

The guts look a little weird thought dont they? i mean if shes been eating insects wouldnt it be like yellowy white?

Id say bircking is far quicker and better than freezing a mantis, a diying mantis in a fridge is freezing, then starts to die where as a bricking mantis is sat there then *KABOOM*

Woops sry for posting on such an old thread

 

[asdsdf]

For humans, freezing is a somewhat okay death. You're first freezing ur @## off and then during your lasts moments, you go into euphoria. I don't think mantises experience the euphoria part, but just getting slower slower....gone. Lol, squishing may be the fastest death and possibly painless.

An explosion may work too.

 

[Matthewtinnion]

An Explosion!!!

I will have to remember that, Im sure if I warn the mantids of an explosive soloution to their problems they will be less than willing to fall ill.

This message will self distruct in 3..2..1...(BOOM)

 

[Mantida]

For humans, freezing is a somewhat okay death. You're first freezing ur @## off and then during your lasts moments, you go into euphoria. I don't think mantises experience the euphoria part, but just getting slower slower....gone. Lol, squishing may be the fastest death and possibly painless.An explosion may work too.

If you squish a bug, the guts will still be alive. I fed my mantis a bee recently, and the leg was ripped off. Later, like 20 minutes, I picked up the parts of the bee, and the leg actually moved while it was in the palm of my hand. :blink:

Freezer shuts down the mantid's metabolism, so it actually dies within 5-10 minutes. If you squish one, it'll take 30+ or more for it to actually die while it is suffering.

 

[asdsdf]

If you squish a bug, the guts will still be alive. I fed my mantis a bee recently, and the leg was ripped off. Later, like 20 minutes, I picked up the parts of the bee, and the leg actually moved while it was in the palm of my hand. :blink: Freezer shuts down the mantid's metabolism, so it actually dies within 5-10 minutes. If you squish one, it'll take 30+ or more for it to actually die while it is suffering.

Hmmm....Then burn burn away. 5-10 mins??? :blink:

 

[Moosashi]

if you squish it entirely, like into tiny pieces, it still will be suffering? what of the nervous system could be left to feel?

 

[Mantida]

if you squish it entirely, like into tiny pieces, it still will be suffering? what of the nervous system could be left to feel?

Why would you squish a mantis to that extremity? :mellow:

They wouldn't feel anything, if they do feel pain. But don't you think that's cruel? Also, yes, probably still would be alive, though what I think is not necessarily true. The guts may be dead by then.

And burning might be quicker than freezing, though I'm not sure how the mantis would like that. XD :lol: