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This short video clip, no sound needed was enough to convince me the answer is very likely no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Hq7zTb1J4






Looks like the mantis was partially paralyzed by a hornet sting to me. The article noted that insects engage in nociception with examples, that specific mantis wasn't in that case, but that's certainly not a thing you can generalize from a single Youtube video.



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