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Mantid Discussions
General Mantid Discussions
Has anyone been bitten by their mantis?
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<blockquote data-quote="Thrillhouse" data-source="post: 331204" data-attributes="member: 9276"><p>Mantis mouths aren't like the mouths of mammals. They don't have teeth or fangs for biting.</p><p></p><p>Instead, they have a little trash compactor mouth and delicate little mandibles to help the food into it. You're too big, too large a surface, and can move away too easily for them to actually bite into you. The only way a mantis could actually manage to bite you is if you wilfully tricked it into latching on, and then held really still as it struggled to actually manage to break the skin. </p><p></p><p>It's just not really possible. They can definitely pinch you with their raptorials. But biting into you isn't going to be likely outside of the absolute largest species, and even then, you'd have to hold still for a while for them to manage it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thrillhouse, post: 331204, member: 9276"] Mantis mouths aren't like the mouths of mammals. They don't have teeth or fangs for biting. Instead, they have a little trash compactor mouth and delicate little mandibles to help the food into it. You're too big, too large a surface, and can move away too easily for them to actually bite into you. The only way a mantis could actually manage to bite you is if you wilfully tricked it into latching on, and then held really still as it struggled to actually manage to break the skin. It's just not really possible. They can definitely pinch you with their raptorials. But biting into you isn't going to be likely outside of the absolute largest species, and even then, you'd have to hold still for a while for them to manage it. [/QUOTE]
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