Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) - Edit 4

[meekrab658]

They are expensive, where did you buy yours?

[cttnjrry]

...Just by accident I popped in here... first I thought, there are apple slices stacked in pile and then it starts moving!!! Does his/her/it´s bite hurt people badly ?

This looks so cruel, I´m speechless!!!

[tedde981016]

How many cm is she?

[DJAlMighty247]

@tedde981016 About 4cm in this clip.

[TrT388]

i need like five of these things in my hous so i can get all the DAMN FLIES and at the same time be AWSOME =)

[rocafella83]

wow thats a pretty cool looking Mantis.

[cdemanelis]

This has to be one of the most beautiful sp. of mantis.

[MrNick2D]

Talk about being eaten alive.

[THEMAREBEARFUL]

that looks like a flower hey were can i get 1 of those???

[StealthBumblebee]

they are very smart yet beautiful creatures. will own one soon hopefully.

[Retrosongs1]

@StealthBumblebee where are you gettting Yours I want this same 1

[bobsyoruncle1]

one word for the mantis- beautiful -two words for its owner- lucky butt-

[L4dyN1ghtr04d]

is so beautiful! I love the colors.

[MayThe5th]

wow..this insect is new to me ;D..its like a flower petal lol

[XironRules]

amazing how it looks

[strohmann]

Hi, my subadult female hymenopus has a black point at the tip of it's abdomen too.

Is that normal ?

[demonic346]

giant shielded malaysian mantis...i live in malaysia..hope i can find it..

[AwesomeussRex]

Im thinking of getting a mantis thats pretty big, but easy to keep. Any reccomendations?

[becky8610]

Giant Shielded Malaysian Mantis :D

take a look on my page. ive got 2 videos of them

[migitcommando]

start with giant Asians or regulars feed em fruit flies till 3d molt then have em start on small crickets if you get your crickets from the store wait 2 days until feeding because the crickets eat carrots witch can kill or harm you mantis

[TheDARIEN54321]

i ake it you already got one and its probbably dead by now but only the adults are big what you want is a baby manis such as one i have now has no wings and is not an adult and will live for some time.

[catblanket14uk]

I love the insane , mad grin on mantids' faces' when they are cleaning themselves.

It's as if they are reminiscing on their latest, sadistically, executed meal. Lol!

[catblanket14uk]

This is remarkable, because those black dots at the top of those eyes seem to be watching the feeder intently, the way that cats and dogs do. Plus the antennae are directed backwards, in anticipation of food...

What a real pity they don't live very long.

[utterbeastage]

if only they lived longer, exactly

[tetra7billy]

this one is gorgeous!! i cant seem to find these guys though. i guess they're rare in the US? or they keep selling out when i look for em? help, anyone?

[wetmackeral]

The best thing to do I've found is to wait for a breeding pair to come on eBay, then you have a pretty much constant supply of em.

[6MadTongue6]

i loved it to..but i got a really stupid question...do the maggets or the smaller bugs feel pain..like the pain we are feeling or what kind of?? is anyone researched that..Jep im pretty stupid on that part..

[jambec144]

Insects use the same pain neurotransmitters that vertebrates use. But as to whether that means that they feel 'pain' as we experience it -who knows.

[GeorgieZillaFan]

@jambec144 well everything needs to feel pain... if it didnt have pain it wouldnt know if it was sitting on somthin hot and burning itself, or if it was being eaten alive from behind, they wouldnt know. and thats not a helpful trait to pass on

[jambec144]

@GeorgieZillaFan -yes, "feel" pain as in being able to respond to bodily damage. One could argue that even plants and microbes can "feel" pain in that sense. But as to whether they can have a subjective experience similar to ours -that's an unresolved (unresolvable?) issue.

[TheDARIEN54321]

@jambec144 actually, Mantids have been found to have nerves very similar to ours, and are on of the only bugs who actually have emotions.

[jambec144]

@TheDARIEN54321 I already wrote a reply, but it's been flagged as spam. In short, all animals have rather similar nervous tissue, as I indicated above. But this tells us nothing about their subjective experiences. As to your claim that Mantids feel emotions, I'd like to see your source.

[TheDARIEN54321]

@jambec144 My source is a friend of mine who studies them, other colleges say the same thing.

[jambec144]

@TheDARIEN54321 Cephalopods are known as having the most sophisticated mental lives of any invertebrates, showing curiosity and playfulness. No insect has ever been called ‘curious’ or ‘playful’. Not even reptiles are as sophisticated. Insects simply don’t copare to birds and mammals. I’ve nothing against insects. After graduating from college, I considered going on to pursue a master’s in entomology. But it’s simply wrong-headed to allow one’s enthusiasm to excuse inventing nonsensical 'facts'.

[TheDARIEN54321]

@jambec144 This is just what i know and it has been proved to me, as long as things are proved to me, i will beleive it.

[jajaheisstleckmicham]

@jambec144 pain is created in your brain... insects, have no brain... so it´s not 100% but it could be... i don´t believe, insects feel pain like human do!

[jambec144]

@jajaheisstleckmicham while the insect brain is less centralized than that of a vertebrate, nevertheless, they do indeed have brains. The brain is in the head, past the first thoracic ganglion, consisting of six fused major ganglia. In most insects, the optic lobes make up the bulk of the brain. The most advanced/intelligent insects also have structures know as "mushroom bodies" that are involved in learning and memory. I don't believe that mantids posses mushroom bodies, but I could be wrong.