Why does the female mantis eat the male mantis, and why does the female mantis eat the male mantis?

According to scientific investigations, it is a rare phenomenon for female praying mantis to eat male mantises, and the reason is that they fail to compete with their rivals and become victims.

A lot of insects are like this, after the male and female have mated, the female will eat the male, in addition to the kind of praying mantis you mentioned, there are also certain scorpions, spiders, etc.

Fabre's Insects has a lot of vivid descriptions of this.

What the Black Cat Sheriff said in "is to supplement the nutrition of the female mantis, and for the smooth growth of their baby!

Not all female mantis eats male mantis after mating. Female mantis mantis needs energy to produce after mating, and if there is no food around at this time, they will eat the male mantis.

The reason why the female mantis wants to eat the male mantis is that it can supplement nutrition and give birth to better offspring, and secondly, the female mantis is because she is very hungry, and it is normal to eat each other.

The female praying mantis wants to eat the male mantis in order to maintain its physical strength, and at the same time, it can also supplement a lot of nutrients, and then breed a better next generation.

The female mantis has to eat the male mantis, because this is the process that the praying mantis world must go through in order to reproduce offspring, and only by eating the male mantis can it reproduce new mantises.

Because the female mantis wants to reproduce the next generation, the female mantis eats the male mantis. This method of reproduction can be described as quite cruel.

The female mantis wants to eat the male mantis because it is so hungry that it has to eat the male mantis, and they will not eat it again after they are full.

Because the female mantis can only successfully reproduce its offspring if it eats the male mantis, the female mantis has to eat the male mantis.

Why do female praying mantis eat male mantises? Not for the sake of reproduction, we are all deceived.

When a male mantis is eaten by a female mantis, why doesn't he run away? Male Mantis: Can't run away.

The female mantis directly attacked the chest, and the male mantis had no way to fight back. And after all, it is to mate rather than fight, and the male mantis who has the desire to fight back has long been cut off, and the rest are not fighting back. In addition, praying mantis easily does not attack anything larger than itself.

Because the female mantis is larger and aggressive, he basically eats anything alive.

Only the female praying mantis eats the male mantis, because they eat the male mantis when they are mated, this is a habit, the female mantis should provide adequate nutrition for the newborn babies, in order to ensure that the newborn babies are properly nourished, and the biological health is in order to better multiply the next generation, which is voluntary by the male mantis, sacrificing himself to become a family. Male praying mantis does not eat female praying mantises.

The scientific name praying mantis, also known as the knife mantis, is an invertebrate and carnivorous insect. In ancient Greece, people regarded the praying mantis as a prophet, and it was also called a prayer insect because the mantis's forearms were raised to look like a praying maiden.

In addition to the polar regions, it is widely distributed all over the world, especially in the tropics. There are about 2,000 species known in the world. About 147 species are known to China.

Including the Chinese giant mantis, the narrow-winged mantis, the broad axe mantis, the brown mantis, the thin-winged mantis, the green mantis, etc., the praying mantis is an important natural enemy of agricultural pests.