Fact or Fiction???

[sean]

Would a mantis really eat and eat until it puts its life in danger, or do they have a limit when they are full and wont eat any more?

 

[Rick]

In my experience it is fiction. I have even tried to make one eat itself to death and it stopped once it got really full.

 

[sean]

Ok thanks for the info. So if i fed a female loads before breeding the chances are it wouldnt be dangerous for her and she would ignore the male as she would be completely full.

 

[Rick]

Not always. I generally don't have any issues with the females eating my males. I let them out for mating usually. I stand by while the male mounts as that is when she will try to grab him. Some females don't even hardly notice when he jumps on.

 

[MantisDude15]

must be boring sex lol

 

[Johnald Chaffinch]

i thought there were just a few species of mantis that are known for eating themselves to death.

and some females abdomens split when theyre full with an ooth and eat a lot, but without much damage

 

[AFK]

In my experience it is fiction. I have even tried to make one eat itself to death and it stopped once it got really full.

lol i thought i was the only one who was demented enough to try this experiment. but instead of trying it on a mantis, i was trying to see how fat i could get my garden spider. i was able to get it disgustingly fat, but something in my schedule would always inevitably pop up to interfere and then a week would pass or and then i'd have to start over.

i kinda wanna do it again haha.

 

[yen_saw]

I never had any fatal incident from mantis over-eating. I believed most of the time disease is the cause of a bloating abdomen to have secretion between the segment which resemble a popping abdomen from overeating.