Since childhood, we all know that after the mantis mates, the female mantis will eat its mate, so why should the praying mantis eat its own mate? This is a matter of curiosity to many friends, many friends may not have seen it in person, but they must have heard of it. This problem has been studied by relevant experts before.
Some experts say that the female mantis eats the male mantis in order to reproduce normally, the male mantis's nervous system inhibition center is on the head, once the male mantis's head is gone, there will be no inhibition function, stimulating the male mantis to ejaculate, and ensuring that semen is continuously injected into its body. To ensure that the eggs can be fertilized, the female mantis will mate while eating the male mantis from the beginning to the end, and when it is full, the eggs in the body are also fertilized.
However, after a series of experiments, it was found that in fact, the female mantis that is not hungry will not cruelly eat the mate, and the stomach is not hungry or full, it is possible to eat the male mantis after mating, if it is a highly hungry female mantis, the male mantis will eat the male mantis before mating.
So the phenomenon of the praying mantis eating its mate is not to be able to reproduce the next generation, this phenomenon is called the same kind of sexual food, eating male mantis is not able to provide any special nutrition for the mother mantis, just because the mother mantis is hungry.
Are male praying mantises eaten voluntarily?
Of course not, the female mantis will only eat male mantises if they are hungry, not to better reproduce, to put it bluntly, it is hungry, in this process, male mantises will also try to escape in order to survive. There will not be a situation where, as everyone says, give your life for love, voluntarily let the other party eat, and provide nutrition for the mother mantis so that the baby mantis can develop healthily. Sometimes male praying mantises fight with female mantises in order to survive. There are also some male mantises that choose to slowly approach the female mantis after she has just finished eating, and then mate with her, and quickly leave the scene after mating.