How to piss a praying mantis - video

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The finger seems to work better than the tweezers.

Most of my mantids only display when I am not trying to piss them off. They just look at my hand when I taunt them. :innocent:

 
Nice music, cool phyllothelys too!

She strikes everytime you touch her legs, ticklish?

 
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Hitting your mantis to make them display is not cool. I see other videos of people hitting or flicking to make the mantis or tarantula display. They dont forget and dont trust you for awhile after.

 
Sticky said:
Hitting your mantis to make them display is not cool. I see other videos of people hitting or flicking to make the mantis or tarantula display. They dont forget and dont trust you for awhile after.
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IMO praying mantis have not such a feeling like a trust... I don't hurt her in any way.

 
i believe that they do... all of my mantids have their own personalities... and its not that you are physically hurting them but your intentionally making them feel fear

leviatan said:
IMO praying mantis have not such a feeling like a trust... I don't hurt her in any way.
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Ponder, my Paraspendale affinis female has no fear of fingers. And she almost never displays. However, on the occasion where I approach her with a mouse (that's the term we use here for any prey) which is held in my set of tongs - she freaks out and displays (she did it today when I presented her with a fat moth held by the tongs). So for her, the metal tongs present a predator threat. She did, however, grab the mouse-moth from the tongs anyway.

I really don't like to force threat displays since it stresses out the mantis.

 
I'll admit after the first 30 secs or so of these type of videos I tend to get the overpowering urge to grab my tweezers and jab the human involved repeatedly in return. I understand why people like display poses for videos or photos but 3 plus minutes of pokeing a mantis nonstop just feels like overkill.

 
Agreed. I hate forced displays... I can understand why you would want to see them do it, but I could never poke and prod my mantis just to tick her off.

Digger said:
Ponder, my Paraspendale affinis female has no fear of fingers. And she almost never displays. However, on the occasion where I approach her with a mouse (that's the term we use here for any prey) which is held in my set of tongs - she freaks out and displays (she did it today when I presented her with a fat moth held by the tongs). So for her, the metal tongs present a predator threat. She did, however, grab the mouse-moth from the tongs anyway.

I really don't like to force threat displays since it stresses out the mantis.
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Odd, my Hierodula is the same way. She has no issues with my my fingers/hands, but hates the site of the tweezers. She's a little.... weird. That's why I love her.

 

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