Sounds cute sounds so dog like ! I always picture them as the cats of the insect world. I like when they clean their tiny feet and their eyes.
That's how she hooked on the pencil that was her distraction from the finger... Not enough time to grab the fly but did that soon after.
Mine does the same exact thing occasionally. I kinda of wonder why it's not as often as say their feet or eyes.I had one that could fold herself while cleaning herself. She started with it when she was a nymph and in adulthood she kept doing it. I have never had a mantis doing it. She was special.
I have had a lot of mantids after this one. I have never seen any ofthem doing the same like folding itself bij cleaning abdomen
Well so far the mantises I have owned are weird. I've got a boxer mantis that likes to hide in her moss rather than at the top and a Galinthais that runs circles on his lid.
These little bugs look like they'd be intelligent but haha nope.Once, one of my mantises was hanging close to the ground, and when it pooped, it thought the turd was a bug and snatched it up. The mantis took a bite or two and dropped the turd in disgust, only to once again think the dot falling before their face was a new bug and it repeated the process.
