The praying mantis was slowly walking along the edge of the parking lot ... It has been accidentally and deliberately ...

If it creeps, crawls or grosses you out, chances are Kathy Sorensen — aka Wyoming's critter lady — loves it. She's a ...

And they move very slowly so they’re not very noticeable. They ambush prey when they get close enough. And they’re very, very efficient at that. If I were praying mantis, I would basically have spines ...

“They’re twice as large as the common praying mantis that we are most familiar with,” said Mark Peters ... “They sit quietly on blooming flowers and when a bumble bee, dragonfly or monarch butterfly ...

“The females typically eat the males after mating ... and in April will hatch out hundreds of babies. Brown said the praying mantis is “an intelligent bug.” “They have binocular vision ...

I write about the world of biology. At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming crustacean that spends its days scuttling along the seafloor. But don’t let their small size fool you into ...

Lohit Garikipati discovered a new species in the praying mantis family. He first spotted the bug a few years ago in Arizona, ...

When nymphs hatch from their egg sac, if they do not find other insects to eat within a week, they will consume one another. Praying mantis mating habits are sometimes unusual. In certain species ...

Credit: David Shrigley/Jay Bartlett David Shrigley has returned to the school where he first took his first proper art lessons, bringing along a giant praying mantis sculpture. The Turner ...

(Courtesy of Cindy Morrison) Jean Broughton sent a photo of a praying mantis in Morgans Walke in Virginia Beach. “This was ...