Roll Over! Play Dead! Good Girl!

[padkison]

 

[Ben.M]

Beautiful mantis and good trick

Sadly my female didnt 'play' dead today

 

[Rick]

I have a male that drops from his lid and does that everytime I mess with his enclosure.

 

[Orin]

Have you tried getting her to dance around in a circle for her daily cricket?

 

[babynik14]

is she acctually dead or playing?!

 

[jarek]

is she acctually dead or playing?!

yes my does the same

 

[padkison]

Orin, given the amount of experience you have with inverts, I can't be sure if you're joking or not

Have you tried getting her to dance around in a circle for her daily cricket?

 

[padkison]

My Orchid female will do this too if I bump her when cleaning her enclosure.

 

[Orin]

Orin, given the amount of experience you have with inverts, I can't be sure if you're joking or not

Have you tried getting her to dance around in a circle for her daily cricket?

If it's actually possible I'm not kidding. Otherwise...

 

[AFK]

looks like a bunch of leaves glued together by a 6 year old

 

[Sparky]

looks like a bunch of leaves glued together by a 6 year old

LOL it does doesn't it! :shock:

 

[buddhistsoldier88]

looks like a bunch of leaves glued together by a 6 year old

LOL it does doesn't it! :shock:

No it was me they just dont know it :shock: SSSSSSHHHHH!!!!!!!

 

[yen_saw]

Yeah Perry, they can stay domain for a while acting dead.... as if that's gonna fool us

 

[OGIGA]

I didn't know mantises do that. That's pretty cool though.

 

[Ian]

Ah yes, the Popa seem to like to do this as well.

Great photo

 

[Djoul]

Mantis can be funny Cool pictures !

 

[athicks]

Do all mantis species play dead sometimes? I have seen a few species mentioned on this thread...

 

[Ben.M]

No, not the aggressive species anyway :roll:

 

[jarek]

Do all mantis species play dead sometimes? I have seen a few species mentioned on this thread...

no, my parasphendale female always trying to bite me.