At this time of year, some nurseries start selling the egg cases of Chinese mantis as a biological control for the garden. These alien-looking insects are praying mantis and are harmless to humans, ...

Experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman write, “These are the egg cases, called oothecae, of a praying mantis. Produced by the ...

Cryptic coloration is also very useful when it comes to catching prey. This mantis feeds on small creatures such as crickets.

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 ...

'Praying Mantis' is another blue-chip production from the master workshop of award-winning filmmaker Kurt Muendl. Programmes like 'An Everyday Monster' about the house fly, 'Shadow hunters' about ...

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 ...

Researchers stumbled upon a prehistoric carving that seems to defy categorization, astrange creature etched into stone with ...

McGowan notes he has seen mantises stalking hummingbird feeders before, but has never witnessed an attack. Anecdotal accounts ...

“Alien” mantis species Liturgusa maya may have arrived in the Galápagos as a stowaway in agricultural material, according to a study. Getty Images/iStockphoto The newly confirmed presence of an “alien ...