Is the dedication of the male praying mantis because of love?

I don't think it's love, it's a responsibility and a mission. They don't give their lives because they love each other or their children, but they give their lives for the sake of the community.

The male mantis is a common insect in the countryside, and the female mantis will generally eat the male mantis, but because it is love, it is impossible, no one wants to die, they all want to live well, if the male mantis has a way, it will not dedicate itself.

Because after having love, the female praying mantis is pregnant, so the male praying mantis should dedicate himself in order to supplement the nutrition of the female praying mantis, this is their love, and the love of animals is really great.

In fact, it is not because of love that Gong Mantis showed up, it was completely because of his own offspring, so he was like this, and it can also be said that he couldn't escape by himself, because they couldn't compete with the mother mantis.

The dedication of the male mantis is not because of love, because it is too dangerous for anyone to want such love. So isn't its ultimate purpose to be perfunctory for future generations? So its contribution is admirable.

The male mantis's love for the female mantis is great, it is not afraid of death, because in the autumn when they mate, and in the autumn season their food is very scarce, the male mantis can't bear to starve the female mantis, so he lets the other party eat himself.

The love between them might be more apt to be understood as opposites attracting. The male mantis to the female mantis is driven by the desire to mate, and the female mantis also has the desire to eat the male mantis, not willing to dedicate herself, nor not afraid of death.

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Wouldn't it be selfish to do so?

It's just that the male mantis didn't have a helmet.

The male mantis said: Do you think I was eaten of my own volition? Do you think I don't want to run? The point is that the female praying mantis is huge, and if you catch it, you can't run away.

In the animal world, females are eaten by females before, during, and after mating, which is a very common phenomenon and is known as sexual cannibalism, of which the typical representative is "praying mantis eats husband". There may be some misunderstandings about this process, and it will be thought that the male mantis completes the task after mating and actively dedicates himself to being eaten by the female praying mantis, which is actually not true. Animals also have survival instincts, and will not dedicate their lives, male mantis knows that mating with female mantis will be life-threatening, so when looking for female mantises, they are cautious, do not dare to face the female mantis head-on, they will suddenly jump to the female mantis from behind.

This allows you to complete the mating and avoid being caught by the female praying mantis, and not all female praying mantis eats the male mantis after mating, depending on whether the female mantis is hungry or not. Generally, those female mantis with larger bellies mean that they are not hungry and are more conducive to giving birth to the next generation, so these female mantis are the preferred targets of male mantises. Male mantis will try to avoid the attack of the female mantis, and strive to mate with a few more female mantis before being eaten, which is more conducive to the survival rate of their offspring, and eggs cannot be put in one basket.

The behavior of the female praying mantis eating the male mantis is also very well understood, that is, it is too hungry and lacks nutrients, and there is no way to lay eggs to form the next generation, scientists have done a lot of field observation records, and found that in all the mating behaviors, the probability of the male mantis being eaten is about 31%. It can be said that this kind of thing is quite common, but not all male mantis will die after mating. You can take a look at the egg sheath formed by the female mantis after mating in the ** below, where the offspring of the praying mantis are bred.

The mother mantis thought to herself: The old lady excretes so many nutrients at one time, what will you take if you don't eat it? The words are not rough, and the female praying mantis kills her husband in order to give birth to offspring.

However, the male mantis will try to avoid the attack of the female mantis, cast a wide net and mate with more female mantises, if it is attacked by the female mantis, it is generally impossible to escape, and the difference in size between the two is still a lot.

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The female mantis's "husband-killing" behavior, of course, the male mantis is voluntary. Because only when the female mantis eats the male mantis can a successful insemination be completed. Female praying mantis can successfully reproduce the next generation.

It's not voluntary, because this kind of weirdness happens when the species evolves to such an extent. Then the male mantis can't escape such a fate, it's a kind of absurd evolution.

Male praying mantis is certainly not voluntary. Male mantis can actually be called a "scumbag", when they mate with a female mantis, they usually don't let the female mantis see him, and after mating, they slip away, they don't want to be responsible at all, let alone give their lives.

The two of them are husband and wife After mating, if the female mantis is pregnant, then the male mantis will take the initiative to ask the female mantis to eat it, because it is for the reproduction of the next generation, which is their natural law.

Male praying mantis is not voluntary, as they are also constantly dodging attacks. Each time it is particularly risky, and they risk being eaten to mate in order to allow their offspring to reproduce.

What praying mantis wants to kill each other so cruelly, even their own "husband"? Some people believe that the praying mantis not only eats the small, but also the female eats the male, which is a normal phenomenon, so they call the martyred male mantis "infatuated husband".

After mating, the female mantis eats the head of the male mantis, and then eats its body, which seems to be very cruel, but in fact, the female mantis urgently needs to supplement a lot of nutrients after mating to meet the needs of the egg formation in the abdomen, as well as to make a large amount of gelatinous shed material used to wrap the eggs when laying eggs in the future. In the natural environment, in order to produce full eggs and cultivate robust offspring, the female mantis physiologically needs protein, and it is far from enough to rely on the small insects it can catch. At least four or five male praying mantis have to eat as much protein as they need to "tonify" to meet the nutrients it needs.

However, many scholars disagree with this statement, because they have found that when the female mantis turns her head and eats the head and forelimbs of the male mantis, the male mantis does not put up any resistance and allows it to devour it freely. So is such an act of the male praying mantis really self-sacrificing? When you are invaded by outsiders, how can you sit idly by?

Therefore, some scholars believe that the male and good praying mantis uses its body as bait in order to complete its basic reproductive tasks.

A praying mantis mating.

The male and female of the praying mantis can be distinguished from the following aspects:

1.The larger ones of the same species are females, and the smaller ones are males.

2.Generally, female praying mantis can be seen in late autumn, while male praying mantis dies 1 to 2 weeks earlier.

3.Count the number of abdominal segments, 8 abdominal segments are male, 6 limbs are female.

4.If you look closely at the tail, you can see that the female has 4 hairs on the tail limb in this life, and the male has only 2 hairs.

5.The breeding period is more pronounced, with females having a bulging abdomen and more than twice the size of males.

Generally speaking, the adult or near-adult praying mantis is the female, and the male is the opposite.