Talk:Mantispidae

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So they can sting _and_ use their arms to catch prey? 87.139.61.151 17:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

No, they can't sting. They just MIMIC wasps. --TheAlphaWolf 22:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Frozen in
Neat image here of a larvae of one of these caught in some amber with a spider http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/fossilised-spider-rider-found.html Original journal article is http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0783-2 --Dr DBW (talk) 04:21, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The rights are owned by three parties, however. You could [mailto:michael.ohl@rz.hu-berlin.de write the photographer and ask for permission] if you so choose. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 15:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You can (and should! unfortunately I don't have time to do it myself) also always add info and cite/link to the article/paper. Bob, wouldn't using a picture from a scientific paper constitute fair use? I thought that photos/graphs/etc from scientific papers could be used if you were talking about the article? Plenty of bloggers (like in scienceblogs) do that regularly.--TAW 01:02, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Often, a photo is released for use in press coverage, but I believe the rights there are restricted in a manner that still retains most copyrights. The photo is still copyrighted by Michael Ohl and owned by the organization he the shot photo for. Linking to the photo couldn't hurt as an alternative to adding the photo, however. Also, I've so far had success when I request a photographer release a low-res copy of a photo under a CC license, which is encouraging. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 16:34, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sigh, that sucks. I hate copyright. Thanks for the clarification! --TAW (talk) 01:01, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Heh, you'd appreciate it, though, if you were the one taking hi-res closeup shots Bob the WikipediaN  (talk • contribs) 03:04, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Psh, I've uploaded a few pics myself (CC w/ attribution, but honestly I don't even care about attribution. It's just nice being able to see if they're being used somewhere else, and attribution allows that), some of which were pretty hard to get for various reasons. They're not as good as the ones in the paper, but I'd absolutely upload pictures like that. The main reasons I don't contribute more is because of a lack of time and because there are plenty of pictures out there, most which are better than mine. So yeah... I still hate copyright :) --TAW (talk) 05:10, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Non-relation to Mantodea
It should probably be mentioned in the article that although they possess raptorial forelimbs similar to those found on Mantodea, they're only very distantly related. Convergent evolution, right? Edaemus (talk) 05:35, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Yep. They're even in different orders. Edit away, Edaemus.--TAW (talk) 20:17, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Image that came through the Wiki Science Competition
Leaving this image here in case editors of this page find it useful. This photo was taken in 1963 and uploaded by the photographer for the Wiki Science Competition (it was one of the finalists in its category and a Jury's Choice award winner). More of the photo's story on the contest's results page. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:49, 26 January 2018 (UTC)