A seemingly innocent praying mantis has been caught on camera munching down an unexpectedly large prey: a hummingbird. The video, which shows the mantis hanging upside down from a tree branch, holding ...

I was working in a garden earlier this summer surrounded by hues of green and the heady smell of soil. I was so fascinated by tilling the cool earth by hand, making drawings and furrows with my ...

Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But one newly described species doesn’t just hold its prey in a prickly embrace: It ...

Sierra Allen took this photo in the Valley of a Praying Mantis in the leaves of a Japanese maple. Though it is difficult to ...

Praying may save us from murder hornets after all. Wild video posted online shows a giant Asian hornet finally meeting its match: a brain-gobbling praying mantis. The clip starts with the mantis ...

About 1,800 species of praying mantids exist around the world. People often refer to any mantid as praying mantis, but mantises are part of a smaller group within the mantids. They get their name ...

When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey bees and ladybugs. Connecticut has designated a voracious predator as its bug-to-be-most-proud-of for ...

As if 2020 couldn't get any worse, the world has now been put on alert by a new formidable foe: The "murder hornet." Last Saturday, the New York Times reported that the Asian giant hornet, better ...

New research shows these ferocious insects don’t just hunt like robots. By Cara Giaimo A praying mantis watches intently as a fly bobs by. In less than a blink, she’s snatched it up. When the tape is ...

The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) or praying mantis is a species of praying mantis native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. The praying mantis was introduced in North America at the end of the 19th ...

The term ‘praying mantis’ is used to refer to a group of insects that adopt a praying posture when their front legs are at rest. They are all long and narrow, and have a distinctive elongated thorax ...