I would’ve loved having these videos when I first started keeping mantises, I’m so glad future keepers will have this as a resource. Great work as always Josh 😊
I think people are always surprised by how smart they are, and the fact that they actually learn things. My first orchid mantis caught a fruit fly as an L2 nymph and started eating it backwards, and the fly was able to get away by kicking and moving around so much. Every single time after that, no matter what prey she was eating, she would make sure she ate it headfirst so it would become incapacitated and stop wiggling around in her grasp. I couldn’t believe that one tiny thing that happened when she was a nymph stuck with her for her entire life. I know they prefer eating prey headfirst in general, but she had eaten several fruit flies backwards before one got away and she switched things up. I used to love watching her grab something and spin it around to make sure she wasn’t going to lose it.
Loving your channel
Keep up the videos because it will definitely help a lot of people!
Shoutout to the TH-cam algorithm for recommending this to me, mantises are so awesome
I would’ve loved having these videos when I first started keeping mantises, I’m so glad future keepers will have this as a resource. Great work as always Josh 😊
I think people are always surprised by how smart they are, and the fact that they actually learn things. My first orchid mantis caught a fruit fly as an L2 nymph and started eating it backwards, and the fly was able to get away by kicking and moving around so much. Every single time after that, no matter what prey she was eating, she would make sure she ate it headfirst so it would become incapacitated and stop wiggling around in her grasp. I couldn’t believe that one tiny thing that happened when she was a nymph stuck with her for her entire life. I know they prefer eating prey headfirst in general, but she had eaten several fruit flies backwards before one got away and she switched things up. I used to love watching her grab something and spin it around to make sure she wasn’t going to lose it.
Love this, I'm just getting into mantises but I'm falling hard for them.