why everything but not ants?

[sbugir]

Lol youtube: Ants eat gecko time lapse. Very scary.

 

[sufistic]

Ants and Mantids don't mix well together. I caught a large adult female Hierodula and let it roam freely in the house. Next day the place where the Hierodula would usually hang out was like a murder scene. Its body parts were casually being carried away by a trail of ants. One single ant was 1/500 the size of that large Hierodula mind you!

 

[C.way]

since that there are all kind of suggestion here, I tried it out myself, feeding two tiny red ants to bunch of young mantis I have here, result-only a few of them ate them(most likely cause by hunger), some hold on the ants and throw away, then showing some cleaning act(seems like the ants spray acid on them), some did not even bother about those ant

Assumption- They will eat those ant given the condition that they have no choice when they are starved

 

[sufistic]

since that there are all kind of suggestion here, I tried it out myself, feeding two tiny red ants to bunch of young mantis I have here, result-only a few of them ate them(most likely cause by hunger), some hold on the ants and throw away, then showing some cleaning act(seems like the ants spray acid on them), some did not even bother about those antAssumption- They will eat those ant given the condition that they have no choice when they are starved

Interesting observation. What species of mantids?

 

[C.way]

miomantis, consisting of 2nd instar and 3rd instar