Talk:Carving Mantis/@comment-2604:6000:A24C:5600:7830:F6BC:72F3:A1C1-20180108034742

Except it's been proven that female Mantis' in the wild don't decapitate their mate on a regular basis, only when stressed, hungry, or in some other form of distress. Biologists just assumed that female Praying Mantises did that because all the ones in captivity did.