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Haggunenons @lemmy.world

2y ago

OC

Paying Mantis, (Mantodea)

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What's he paying for, a cricket?
- He's paying for sex
  With his life
  
  DM; HS
  
  Actually, she is not paying. It was female. I read online that you can find out by counting the segments on her abdomen. It is the difference of having 5 or 6 for females and 7 or 8 for males.

I need about tree fiddy.

The freaky thing is those black spots are probably the only bits of their eyes that they don't see out of.
- Really? The dots certainly seemed to be following me around as I moved around her. Although that could be the case whether she was seeing through them or not I suppose.
  
  The dots aren't following you around :) They're called pseudopupils. You're seeing down the "tubes" (ommatidia) of the composite eyes (heavy oversimplification because I'm no scientist).
  A smarter person explains this here: https://www.readingeagle.com/2015/09/16/outside-some-insects-look-like-theyre-looking-at-you-but-are-they

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