Althouse: Campus Mantis: Non Compos Mentis.

४ सप्टेंबर, २०१०

Campus Mantis: Non Compos Mentis.

It's Saturday night, and the praying mantis at the University of Wisconsin is restless and reckless. We try to help, but he seems lacking in rationality. (WARNING: 1 bad word.)

८ टिप्पण्या:

AST म्हणाले...: What's his major? Entomology?

If so, he may have just learned about the mating habits of his species and decided to end it all right now.

If I were he, I'd want to end it all by finding a willing female. I think they experience sexual climax as a long tunnel of light.

I used to love catching these and feeding them grasshoppers for a few days, before getting bored and releasing them.; ४/९/१०, ११:१२ PM
Fred4Pres म्हणाले...: Looking for love? Don't female praying mantis rip the heads off the males following sex?

Crack MC could tell you about that!; ४/९/१०, ११:१३ PM
Synova म्हणाले...: They bite the male's head off and eat the body. Not always, but often. I don't know if he recovers if he doesn't get eaten though. Might die anyway.

If it's any consolation, female mantises also often die after they've laid eggs once. I don't think they always die, but they often do.; ५/९/१०, १:५१ AM
Chip Ahoy म्हणाले...: Our family stopped at an isolated roadside Denny's. Finished scarfing early, we went outside and ran around before getting back into the car for a long haul home. My sister found a praying mantis at the edge of the clearing. It was green and HUGE and FAT. She brought it into the car. Transported it home. Put it in a shoebox. Forgot about it, as children do. Opened the box one day and it was dead, but it left behind a bunch of cotton-looking stuff. Closed the box again. Opened the box again a few days later and a BILLION baby praying mantises flew out of the box. Or maybe it was a hundred. OKAY FINE! twenty or so baby praying mantises flew out of the box. Or possibly they just crawled out of the box and my sister screamed anyway because she's a natural-born drama queen. Hey, it was a long time ago, ah'ight, and I wasn't in the room when she opened the shoebox. Apologies for my story not having any bitten off heads.; ५/९/१०, ४:३५ AM
Unknown म्हणाले...: He looked like he'd just left a bar after a long night of pub crawling.; ५/९/१०, ७:०८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Synova, kinda close. Males usually don't get eaten (depends a lot on the species). In the wild they will sometimes wait until the female has a catch before approaching. The male that isn't eaten goes off to find another female. The female mantid (that one is an Aridifolia sinensis) will lay a number of ootheca before death. I've had Chinese mantids (A.f.) lay up to six or seven with maybe 150 eggs in each.; ५/९/१०, १२:३९ PM
Rockport Conservative म्हणाले...: Is this on facebook, too? Three of my relatives have posted pictures of the Great Big preying mantises they have found in their yards, on their truck, a couple of others have posted their tales of the critters. Must be preying mantis season.; ५/९/१०, ५:३४ PM
Rick Lee म्हणाले...: This is weird... I do a post on a bumblebee moth and then you post on a bumblebee moth. I do a post on a praying mantis and then you do a post on a praying mantis.; ५/९/१०, ८:५१ PM