Unknown sickness - bubble on head?

[yen_saw]

Gary, you are right, afraid i have no idea where the "actual" head had gone.

 

[athicks]

How long was it like this? I mean, mantids are close relatives of cockroaches and roaches can live without head for a week or so. Maybe your mantid was kind of dead already. Just living without a head. :shock:

 

[OGIGA]

Well, they only really need their head for seeing, eating, and whatever their antennas do. They have a nervous network rather than a central nervous system.

 

[Asa]

The mantis-zombie, :shock: .

 

[Birdfly]

I suspect what has happened is that this mantis was so close to ecdysis that it could not defend itself at all, another mantis has taken advantage of this and taken it apon itself to destroy this competator for food etc by eating the head, i dont understand why it didnt eat the whole animal, but a few species of mantis have been documented to just eat the head of a con specific, Rhombodera sp to name one?

:roll:

 

[Asa]

I suspect what has happened is that this mantis was so close to ecdysis that it could not defend itself at all, another mantis has taken advantage of this and taken it apon itself to destroy this competator for food etc by eating the head, i dont understand why it didnt eat the whole animal, but a few species of mantis have been documented to just eat the head of a con specific, Rhombodera sp to name one?:roll:

Of course, we don't know for sure, it did eat the head.

 

[yen_saw]

I suspect what has happened is that this mantis was so close to ecdysis that it could not defend itself at all, another mantis has taken advantage of this and taken it apon itself to destroy this competator for food etc by eating the head, i dont understand why it didnt eat the whole animal, but a few species of mantis have been documented to just eat the head of a con specific, Rhombodera sp to name one?:roll:

That could be right, there were a few more of this species in the same cage when i noticed the mantis-zombie as Asa said.

 

[Birdfly]

I suspect what has happened is that this mantis was so close to ecdysis that it could not defend itself at all, another mantis has taken advantage of this and taken it apon itself to destroy this competator for food etc by eating the head, i dont understand why it didnt eat the whole animal, but a few species of mantis have been documented to just eat the head of a con specific, Rhombodera sp to name one?:roll:

Of course, we don't know for sure, it did eat the head.

No no, your right, the culprit might still have the head in its fridge along with other victim body parts :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

 

[Asa]

At that point, Birdfly :lol: .

 

[Birdfly]

Sorry Asa, i couldn't resist

 

[Asa]

:lol:

I wonder.... :shock:

 

[buddhistsoldier88]

It looks like it was damaged during its last moult. Insects cannot repair tissue so unless the wound dries up, haemolymph will keep oozing out.It's not an infection.

Rob

seems reasonable to me...though ive had no exp in the mantid field.....

 

[hibiscusmile]

I suspect what has happened is that this mantis was so close to ecdysis that it could not defend itself at all, another mantis has taken advantage of this and taken it apon itself to destroy this competator for food etc by eating the head, i dont understand why it didnt eat the whole animal, but a few species of mantis have been documented to just eat the head of a con specific, Rhombodera sp to name one?:roll:

Of course, we don't know for sure, it did eat the head.

No no, your right, the culprit might still have the head in its fridge along with other victim body parts :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

jeffery dalmer is dead, so must be someone else! :lol: