One night in March of last year, a praying mantis crept onto a rooftop garden in India and perched on an artificial pond, waiting intently. When an unsuspecting guppy swam by, the insect snatched it ...

McGowan notes he has seen mantises stalking hummingbird feeders before, but has never witnessed an attack. Anecdotal accounts of these insects devouring hummingbirds are brutal: Mantises have been ...

The praying mantis was perched on my mountain mint, stock-still, unlike the mint leaves that rustled in the wind. All green like the mint, the big insect could easily have been a botanical appendage, ...

Delays, service changes and humongous bugs, oh my! The MTA had one more pest plaguing the subway system on Tuesday when a massive praying mantis joined commuters for a ride. City Councilman Keith ...

A man has shared a horrifying snap of a praying mantis nest that hatched right outside his front door, covering his porch in bugs. Emoats83, from Nebraska, uploaded a photo to Reddit, showing dozens ...

When you think of the Jurassic Period, you might think of dinosaurs, but all kinds of insects, including praying mantises, roamed the Earth back then, too. Some of the mantises died and fossilized ...

'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 ...

A NEW insect with “praying hands” has been spotted in England for the first time. They have been seen in the Channel Islands and Isle of Wight before but this is the first time a breeding population ...

FREMONT - When most police officers are off the clock they tend to relax. When Fremont Police officer Lester Daniels clocks out, he spends his time diving into research on insects. After publishing a ...