The squad of insects captured in this extraordinary YouTube clip is among the most visually striking you are likely to come across. They look like exotic plants or delicate mini-sculptures, but they ...

Adrian Kozakiewicz has been collecting and breeding unique tropical insects for the last 15 years and shares them with his fans on social media. In a recent Instagram post, where he has more than 5 ...

Even though I know that praying mantises are not native to New England and that they are not beneficial (due to their voracious appetites for anything small and alive) I still wait for them to show up ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the way praying mantises see the world, and this knowledge could potentially open up new avenues for computer vision. Unlike other insects, praying mantises ...

Have you ever noticed strange, almost alien-like, sacs on your plants? Most people think they are cocoons, but these foamy-looking masses are the egg cases of mantises. The unassuming sacs contain ...

Praying mantises are perhaps the most distinct and fearsome predators of the insect world. Their ambush-style attacks are comparable to those of lions and tigers. But, as a recent study published to ...

Add this to the list of things you never thought you needed to see until you actually saw it: a praying mantis rocking miniature, old-school 3D glasses. A research team from Newcastle University ...

Many people have thrown away their Christmas trees by now, but maybe you're still finding some annoying pine needles around the house. Well, one woman in Virginia probably wishes she was finding pine ...

Praying mantises see the world in three dimensions in a way that’s completely different from how vertebrates (including birds, humans, and other mammals) do, according to a new paper in Current ...

Mantises may look unearthly, but they’re uniquely adapted to life on this planet. These incredible hunters have repeatedly evolved into “ecomorphs”—groups that aren’t closely related, but share ...