Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) - Edit 4

Subadult female, feeding. This is a true beauty of the mantis family. Gets even better with wings, after the final molt.

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[tedde981016]

How many cm is she?

[DJAlMighty247]

@tedde981016 About 4cm in this clip.

[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.

[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.

[meekrab658]

They are expensive, where did you buy yours?

[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.

[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!

[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!!!

[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.

[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.