sueb4653
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why experiment with a live feeling animal insect
go play with some non feeling object geesh
go play with some non feeling object geesh
The "robot" for small mantis feeding could have a small wire arm at the end of which the food would be placed in a tiny globule. It could twitch to attract attention.Mantids can't digest chitin so what would they need it for? Remember, chitin is similar to cellulose and mantids have a short digestive tract.In addition to the chitin, for which there is NO veggie equivalent, youd need a saturated fat that would stay solid at room temp, unlike most veggie fats that are liquid at room temp. You need protein, and you need micro and macronutrients.
In my opinion... this will not work. Buuilding a mini robot? NO! You couldnt build one small enough to encourage small nymphs to feed.
oh their brains r MUCH smaller than that :lol:I don't know why this thread is still being taken seriously. Think about it. You are honestly discussing how to build tiny robots laced with impossible food to circumvent millions of years of Evolution so that some 21st Century morals can be imposed on an insect with a "brain" the size of a pinto bean.
Maybe if you took all the ganglions and concentrated them like a brain, you'd get to the size I mean. I didn't mean just in the space between their eyes. That's also why brain was in quotes.oh their brains r MUCH smaller than that :lol:
:lol: +1I wonder if the surviving vegan mantids would be as sickly as the human ones
You probably don't realize there are artificial diets for a number of giant silk moths that feed only on specific host plants which would be much more difficult to emulate than a generalist predator diet. The mix itself would probably be very simple, it's the execution that would be difficult.Hopefully you have a lot of knowledge on proteins, sugars, and near-microscopic engineering, because achieving this in my view is near impossible.
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