EALING: Wingless praying mantises are amazing acrobats with a level of control over their leap that’s unusual in the insect world, according to new research.
Two U.K scientists purchased several praying mantises, Stagmomantis theophila, at an entomology show. Back at the lab, as the insects began to breed, the scientists grew interested in their jumping behaviour of the juvenile mantises.
“We could not scare them into jumping or get them to jump away from a threatening stimulus,” says Greg Sutton, at the University of Bristol who undertook the research with Malcolm Burrows, from the University of Cambridge.
“So instead we offered them a target to jump towards and found that they would do this consistently and accurately.”
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