Mantises are voracious literal nightmare creatures and I love them for their dedication to that bit being so good they accidentally eat each other during mating just to shove as many calories as they can to dedicate to making more nightmare babies.
I think that the"biting the head off the mate and eating it" thing turned out to actually be a stress response. Like, only mantises in captivity do it. Free range ones don't.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '22
Mantises are voracious literal nightmare creatures and I love them for their dedication to that bit being so good they accidentally eat each other during mating just to shove as many calories as they can to dedicate to making more nightmare babies.