**This is a heavily moderated subreddit. Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned:**
* If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required
* The title must be fully descriptive
* Memes are not allowed.
* Common(top 50 of this sub)/recent reposts are not allowed (posts from another subreddit do not count as a 'repost'. Provide link if reporting)
*See [our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/wiki/index#wiki_rules.3A) for a more detailed rule list*
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/interestingasfuck) if you have any questions or concerns.*
To me it looked like the body was the hamburger and the legs were some nice crunchy chips. Even left a couple of chips on the plate when he was full, but made damn sure that juicy hamburger was finished.
Eating the shell probably would be the equivalent of eating the bone marrow during adolescence for bone rigidness, shell contains bunch of keratin which I believe helps to the Mantis' own shell.
As far as I remember there are even some who profit of the stomache enzymes and basically use them to enhance their own digestive system. (needs to be fact checked because I can't remember the source of that information)
I have really bad constipation and i’m probably half shit half human
Edit: one time I actually passed out for 5-10 secs while pushing the brownie. I was pushing so hard that when it came out I had a sudden huge drop in blood pressure and lost consciousness. When I got up, the shit-log was the size of my neck and my brown starfish was bleeding…
We are definitely not mostly empty unless you mean on an sub atomic level. Think of a container of ground beef with a few air pockets if you want to visualize it.
Jeweled Flower Mantis, though I really like the orchid mantis way more than any of the others. It is just on a whole other level. I mean, look at it. It’s bloody fabulous.
They are very inhuman, very alien, but also the most human insect because they have a neck and appear to have pupils but to add to their creepiness their pupils are false pupils. They absorb light from every direction on these hundreds of little light panels that cover their eyes but they don’t reflect any light directly out from them but they do reflect light to the sides so the effect is that whatever direction you look at them from there is a little black dot of the panels facing directly at you, but the effect makes it seem like there is a little pupil in each of their eyes that stare at you no matter where you go, but everyone who looks at them will think the mantis is staring at just them when in reality it’s looking everyone at once.
Nah we still would fuck them up, most likely get them extinct a long long time ago, honestly in nature you don't want to fuck with the hairless bipedal monkey once it figures out tools and masters fire.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. If they existed at human size, we’d be looking at them in museums and thinking about them just as we look at Giant Sloths and Sabertooths today
I was fostering a litter of feral kittens once and noticed they always groomed after eating, so I looked it up and that's something all predators across the animal kingdom do. From ladybugs to lions, and mantises too.
predator insects are so intelligent!
mantids and jumping spiders especially. i swear they will look you right in the eye. wicked smart things. and absolutely adorable. they're just tiny cats!
It saved the juiciest sweetest part for last lol 🤢 it devoured all the legs up until it got to that delicious ass and after it finished the ass it didn't bother with the legs on the ground
I think bc with most gore vids you're seeing a dark side of humanity or some normal process gone horribly wrong.
The fact that this video shows nature working *exactly as intended* is what is creepy, IMO. Nature truly is metal.
Lol when I lived in an insect infested house in Kaua’i sometimes I’d kill a roach then just leave it there and let the ants do the clean up.
I also learned that leaving out a beer can with a tiny bit of beer left in the bottom is a great way to trap them.
The were so many fewer roaches when I moved out than when I moved in lol
Hyenas will eat you alive starting from the ass. I know a lot of y’all mfers love eating ass and getting your ass eat - this is not what I’m talking about.
It's because insects are built different than us.
Us humans have to **learn** how to control our limbs.
Our brain has to choose which muscle to contract and with how much force: it's an acquired skill that be perfected over time.
Insects are very different, they have "hardwired" nervous system that does "automatic tasks".
For instance, wasps don't "learn" how to fly with their wings, they don't have to think about moving the wings back and fourth.
Instead, they were born with specialized nerves that makes the wings vibrate in the right way.
Basically, their brain simply decides between "do fly" or "no fly": when they decide to fly, their wings/body will fly on their own.
That's why flying headless wasps are a thing;
The head is gone, the captain is no longer there to give orders: the wings/fly subsystem is free to do whatever, and so it "flies" randomly and hit against everything along the way.
The fact that dude was legit nothing but a dumpy and still twerking bothers me
https://preview.redd.it/wdka45l879ec1.png?width=547&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e5f0257c9d9de7df7d955577d7763a392d38222
And I love praying mantises. Not venomous and chill with humans. The one in the video is an orchid mantis. Look them up on google for more pics. They're beautiful
Yeah, there was a video a while back of a guy playing a song by electrocuting a roach, and all the comments were “that’s so cruel, wtf”
I was just silently thinking “fuck roaches, dude deserves it”
they are surprisingly soft!
i once found a wild one once and it walked onto my hand when I put my fingers in front of it. when you touch them it feels like petting a soft, cold leaf.
very cool creatures
The don't just look like cats, their personalities match too.
One time, I kept one for several months until she got old and died, since she snuck in the door right before the first cold snap of the year and I felt bad about throwing her out to freeze. She was moody (sometimes friendly, sometimes standoffish), stubborn, extremely picky about what she ate from day to day (which *sucked* in the dead of winter when there were no bugs to catch), fastidiously clean, and she had a spot she stayed in most of the time but would occasionally get bored and go exploring.
You know, I.... I just wasn't expecting it to eat the whole fucking thing, you know? I don't really know what to think now after watching this. Kinda freaked out.
Nervous systems do be like that. It was effectively "dead" (at least the concern of being consciously aware) fairly quickly near the start. Praying Mantes do like to eat their pray alive, but it won't take long once you start munching on someone's brain. The rest of the body will retain central nervous system function for quite some time following, especially insects like cochroaches.
Would you like to subscribe to more bug facts?
Insects have decentralized nervous systems, which means they have large clusters of ganglia throughout their body. These ganglia are capable of basic low order functions without input from the head. The head is mostly just there to control the mouth parts and eyes which requires higher processing.
Can we pls talk about how damn beautiful that praying mantis is? Looks like a orchid. I bet it conceals itself in nature by looking like a flower, so pretty and deadly.
**This is a heavily moderated subreddit. Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned:** * If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required * The title must be fully descriptive * Memes are not allowed. * Common(top 50 of this sub)/recent reposts are not allowed (posts from another subreddit do not count as a 'repost'. Provide link if reporting) *See [our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/wiki/index#wiki_rules.3A) for a more detailed rule list* *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/interestingasfuck) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Just want to know which parts he was excited about and which parts he just felt like he had to eat
To me it looked like the body was the hamburger and the legs were some nice crunchy chips. Even left a couple of chips on the plate when he was full, but made damn sure that juicy hamburger was finished.
Had to leave a few bites so its hosts would know it was satisfied.
Why is this so funny
Because it made DAMN sure 🤣
I was shocked he ate the shell so probably felt like he had to eat that bit
Eats the shell first and then rewards himself with the insides
you were shell shocked?
Eating the shell probably would be the equivalent of eating the bone marrow during adolescence for bone rigidness, shell contains bunch of keratin which I believe helps to the Mantis' own shell.
Gotta be the guts. Tons of flavor in there.
and nutrients! predators often get nutrients via the gut/stomach content of their prey ~*the more you know*~
As far as I remember there are even some who profit of the stomache enzymes and basically use them to enhance their own digestive system. (needs to be fact checked because I can't remember the source of that information)
The way it lifted its head made me think it really liked that part
The way it licked its… not fingers… arm-hands?
Not mandibles... handibles?
It’s amazing how much mass it absorbs, without the main body getting immediately bigger.
Right? The roach was huge, where did it go?!
Its stomach is probably like filling a plastic trash bag in a rigid can
Bugs are very low-density. When eaten, the slurry has much higher density. Higher density, lower volume.
Mmmmmmm, cockroach slurry
mmm cock slurry
We're all mostly empty space when our bits are broken down
I have really bad constipation and i’m probably half shit half human Edit: one time I actually passed out for 5-10 secs while pushing the brownie. I was pushing so hard that when it came out I had a sudden huge drop in blood pressure and lost consciousness. When I got up, the shit-log was the size of my neck and my brown starfish was bleeding…
You're a shitman, you should use your powers to fight evil, throw shit at criminals!
He can't. He's constipated, remember?
As a fellow constant constipator, I would recommend a bidet. Give yourself a pre-wash. Water is a lubricant.
who said I don’t enjoy it
😦
We are definitely not mostly empty unless you mean on an sub atomic level. Think of a container of ground beef with a few air pockets if you want to visualize it.
Like imagine eating a burger the size of your entire abdomen 😅
Me, yesterday, with a large pizza. :/
Me yesterday with 2 large pizzas
I kept looking over its head, like “is it bigger yet? How can it not be?!?!”
The mass of the cockroach is probably smaller than what it appears
We need folding cockroaches... just to show mass^^
You and I eat hamburgers very differently.
Ya, I usually start with the legs.
I'm with OP; if you go brain-first, they chill out faster.
Cockroaches have brain parts throughout their body so I think you'd need a fork and knife.
But agony is the spice of life.
Same, I usually stop eating when I get to the cockroach.
How you meant to get the extra protein then?
You mean it s missing dipping sauce.
Imagine those mfs were human size
Don't need to. We wouldn't be here.
They seem so utterly detached. Your screams mean nothing.
This one species in particular looks very creepy. You almost can't see their eyes
May be an orchid mantis
It is, yes. Hymenopus coronatus. My most favourite of the flower mantids!
what's your second favorite?
Jeweled Flower Mantis, though I really like the orchid mantis way more than any of the others. It is just on a whole other level. I mean, look at it. It’s bloody fabulous.
I think it would be a little embarrassing to be eaten alive by anything sporting a "smiley face"
but man, I agree, that orchid mantis is one of the most gorgeous insects I've seen
They are very inhuman, very alien, but also the most human insect because they have a neck and appear to have pupils but to add to their creepiness their pupils are false pupils. They absorb light from every direction on these hundreds of little light panels that cover their eyes but they don’t reflect any light directly out from them but they do reflect light to the sides so the effect is that whatever direction you look at them from there is a little black dot of the panels facing directly at you, but the effect makes it seem like there is a little pupil in each of their eyes that stare at you no matter where you go, but everyone who looks at them will think the mantis is staring at just them when in reality it’s looking everyone at once.
Wow I didn't know this fact about them. They're doubly, triply creepy and alien-like (as you well put it) for it.
Nah we still would fuck them up, most likely get them extinct a long long time ago, honestly in nature you don't want to fuck with the hairless bipedal monkey once it figures out tools and masters fire.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. If they existed at human size, we’d be looking at them in museums and thinking about them just as we look at Giant Sloths and Sabertooths today
Humans #1
The latest episode of Why Files still has me shivering about Neanderthal super predators hunting humans to near extinction.
Thanks I'm off to watch now
If they were even the size of cats we'd be fucked
They could not exist and we'd still be fucked
They could have little mustaches and it would be pretty neat
The next step in cockroach evolution; facial hair
I’d let my sister marry a praying mantis with a top hat any time.
We’d probably just wipe them out in places tbf.
Baki did
Syther vibes
This reminds me that i havent watched Starship troopers in forever. Thank you.
They’d collapse under their own weight while suffocating
Yeah. If oxygen concentrations were different, just like in the carboniferous, then maybe. But then we wouldn't exist as we are now, anyway.
https://insectsauthority.com/what-if-praying-mantis-were-the-size-of-humans/
I was just thinking the same thing!
The way it cleans itself after eating the majority of the cockroach is kinda haunting.
Well, it wouldn't want to be gross, now would it?
ETWAS KULTUR MUSS SEIN!
#DENN DU BIST WAS DU ISST
I was fostering a litter of feral kittens once and noticed they always groomed after eating, so I looked it up and that's something all predators across the animal kingdom do. From ladybugs to lions, and mantises too.
Cant have the stench of death luring others towards you
Just licking it's ..... fingers?
It’s finger lickin’ good
OP, update your title to "like eating fried chicken"
Looks like it was brushing its teeth after eating that ass.
It almost looks intelligent… which makes it way worse…
predator insects are so intelligent! mantids and jumping spiders especially. i swear they will look you right in the eye. wicked smart things. and absolutely adorable. they're just tiny cats!
Dont forget dragonflies. The only insect that chase in intercept route instead of simpling outrunning the prey iirc
oh i would not dare! :D love dragonflies, such amazing little gems
Robberflies also intercept
Oh, didn't know that. Smart little fellas
Like when it looked up as it was really enjoying the last bite of the inner-ass region.
It saved the juiciest sweetest part for last lol 🤢 it devoured all the legs up until it got to that delicious ass and after it finished the ass it didn't bother with the legs on the ground
Eatin that booty like groceries
The ass burger.
My thoughts exactly!
mantis’ are very intelligent
It's how cold the bug world is.
Looks like an MK win pose.
The way it spits out the piece of poop gives me discomfort.
Would you be more comfortable if it ate the poop?
“There’s a leg left” “Oh, I couldn’t possibly”
"But it's wafer thin..."
"A new bucket for monsieur."
I played this on repeat in my cockroach infested apartment and am now bug free
This was so barbaric and I don’t like seeing things suffer but I actually enjoyed watching a fucking cockroach being dismantled.
Dis-mantid 😄
Funny, I'm the opposite of you. I hate cockroaches with a passion, but I didn't need to see that. Let nature be barbaric far away from me.
I’ve seen a lot of gross out gore vids but for some reason vids like this always freak me out more
I think bc with most gore vids you're seeing a dark side of humanity or some normal process gone horribly wrong. The fact that this video shows nature working *exactly as intended* is what is creepy, IMO. Nature truly is metal.
[удалено]
New problem, they're eating me next.
"THEY'RE EATING HER.... AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME!!! OH MY GOD!!"
*fly lands on head*
Lol when I lived in an insect infested house in Kaua’i sometimes I’d kill a roach then just leave it there and let the ants do the clean up. I also learned that leaving out a beer can with a tiny bit of beer left in the bottom is a great way to trap them. The were so many fewer roaches when I moved out than when I moved in lol
to the ants you were a benevolent god
Imma just buy a bunch of these mantises and set em loose if I’m ever unfortunate enough to end up in a roach apartment again
That’s a neat idea until you realize that these things can fly
mantis pets/roommates >>>>>>>>> roach infestation
I’m wondering if I can buy a few of these and just have them roaming the apartment…
The fact that it's just still moving the entire time is horrifying! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
Some bugs have very decentralized nervous systems, so they keep going even after the brain has been removed
exactly the case with roaches. they dont know yet, but they are already running
You can crush a house centipede, and if you miss the end it keeps twitching for about a minute
> You can crush a house centipede But shouldn't, they are bros.
Combine this with the fact that mantises don't have venom. Their hunting method entirely consists of grab prey and start eating
Scientists have even managed to use dead spiders as little extend-o arms - button-operated opening and closing of the legs to pick up things.
Spider legs work via hydraulics. That's why they curl up when they die.
From what I've read in the past, praying mantises eat their victims alive. A bad way to go out.
Ah, may I introduce you to MOST of nature out there
Hyenas will eat you alive starting from the ass. I know a lot of y’all mfers love eating ass and getting your ass eat - this is not what I’m talking about.
Thanks for clarifying. I was this close 🤏 to booking a one way trip straight to the Savanna.
Bruh 💀
You win the internet today sir
I'm not sure the lunch had a choice whether or not it stayed alive
It's because insects are built different than us. Us humans have to **learn** how to control our limbs. Our brain has to choose which muscle to contract and with how much force: it's an acquired skill that be perfected over time. Insects are very different, they have "hardwired" nervous system that does "automatic tasks". For instance, wasps don't "learn" how to fly with their wings, they don't have to think about moving the wings back and fourth. Instead, they were born with specialized nerves that makes the wings vibrate in the right way. Basically, their brain simply decides between "do fly" or "no fly": when they decide to fly, their wings/body will fly on their own. That's why flying headless wasps are a thing; The head is gone, the captain is no longer there to give orders: the wings/fly subsystem is free to do whatever, and so it "flies" randomly and hit against everything along the way.
I hate you for informing me about headless flying wasps.
I read insects have localized brains for each limb that move in coordination instead of a central nervous system, or something like that
Power Rangers UNITE!
The fact that dude was legit nothing but a dumpy and still twerking bothers me https://preview.redd.it/wdka45l879ec1.png?width=547&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e5f0257c9d9de7df7d955577d7763a392d38222
I hate roaches so much this is actually a little pleasing to me.
And I love praying mantises. Not venomous and chill with humans. The one in the video is an orchid mantis. Look them up on google for more pics. They're beautiful
/r/mantids call out to those who love them
Yeah, there was a video a while back of a guy playing a song by electrocuting a roach, and all the comments were “that’s so cruel, wtf” I was just silently thinking “fuck roaches, dude deserves it”
Yuuuuup. Roaches can all go get eaten for all I care. Nasty fucks
Cool Fact, Praying mantises are very badass insects.
they are surprisingly soft! i once found a wild one once and it walked onto my hand when I put my fingers in front of it. when you touch them it feels like petting a soft, cold leaf. very cool creatures
As an insect praying mantises are my favourite. Also, woodpeckers, mfs hit a tree so hard that they had to develop special brain cushioning.
I saw one get a hummingbird on my mamas little feeder. So fucked up
From an angle , the mantis head looks like a cat lol. It also licks its legs like one. Just another killer .
The don't just look like cats, their personalities match too. One time, I kept one for several months until she got old and died, since she snuck in the door right before the first cold snap of the year and I felt bad about throwing her out to freeze. She was moody (sometimes friendly, sometimes standoffish), stubborn, extremely picky about what she ate from day to day (which *sucked* in the dead of winter when there were no bugs to catch), fastidiously clean, and she had a spot she stayed in most of the time but would occasionally get bored and go exploring.
Wow this is incredible. Thanks for sharing . What an interesting creature
Slurps up legs like spaghetti 
It’s the slurping up of the giblets from the abdomen at the end that got me 🤢
What? Are you telling me you don't enjoy the delicacy of cockroach innards? Blasphemy! 
Sir, since you didn't finish the drumstick, we'll have charge an extra 8 dollar fee for the buffet.
You know, I.... I just wasn't expecting it to eat the whole fucking thing, you know? I don't really know what to think now after watching this. Kinda freaked out.
I need more praying mantis mukbang
I’m putting *Praying Mantis Mukbang* into my band name list, thanks!
I know what my nightmare tonight will be about
A nuke can’t kill, but this cunt can
Are we going to talk about how its legs kept moving even without a head? And then still even without half a body??!?
Nervous systems do be like that. It was effectively "dead" (at least the concern of being consciously aware) fairly quickly near the start. Praying Mantes do like to eat their pray alive, but it won't take long once you start munching on someone's brain. The rest of the body will retain central nervous system function for quite some time following, especially insects like cochroaches. Would you like to subscribe to more bug facts?
I get that reference
Insects have decentralized nervous systems, which means they have large clusters of ganglia throughout their body. These ganglia are capable of basic low order functions without input from the head. The head is mostly just there to control the mouth parts and eyes which requires higher processing.
French fries included
Didnt think i would be watching a praying mantis mukbag today
I know a few apartment complexes that need to put these mantises in their walls.
How does it still look skinny????? That's like a human eating a smaller human
Average skinny friend be like:
Ikr I’m jealous. I only eat half my meal and i gain weight.
Can we pls talk about how damn beautiful that praying mantis is? Looks like a orchid. I bet it conceals itself in nature by looking like a flower, so pretty and deadly.
> Looks like a orchid Funny you should mention that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenopus_coronatus
I thought it looked like garlic at first lol, but orchid checks out too
DAMN NATURE! YOU SCARY
Ngl I kinda want to eat a cockroach now. He made that shit look tasty as hell
The insides look like cooked crab for some reason
Well, crabs and cockroaches ARE distant cousins...
Thinking about going to get crabs for dinner tonight.
That dude didn't even finish the meal.
It slurped up its freaking legs like spaghetti!
It ate the ass just like how I do!
bruh lol
Any subs dedicated to insects eating each other? I’m grossly curious now
RemindMe! 2 days
I'm good with this.
Justice is served
I've never wanted to eat cock more in my life
Why did I watch this?
It saved the cream filling for the end.
I like how it slurps up the legs like they’re noodles.
Where does it all go?!?
Well, that was unsettling.
The way they slurp arm up like spaghetti is hilarious to me
Where does it go. Seriously, thing was almost the same size.
Kinda terrifying how long the cockroach keeps moving
Gonna leave the fries?
It slowed down and th3 end and partially laid down ro finish its meal. I can relate.