Did you know that the animal kingdom is full of strange and unexpected power dynamics? In this jaw-dropping video, we reveal ...

With lightning-fast strikes, stealthy movements, and deadly precision, the praying mantis is one of nature’s most formidable ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect models to explore how some species trick ...

Research has shown that the praying mantis can also see in 3D, but using a mechanism called stereopsis, which gives them depth perception. Praying mantises are the only insects known to have ...

“But as a mantis grows, when they get to be adult-sized they can easily pick off a bee coming to pollinate your tomato plant. So the long-term benefit of introducing them into gardens is kind of ...

The majority of insects are considered beneficial or harmless. Of course, those are the ones we want to have hanging around.

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Encouraging beneficial bugs is a natural, eco-friendly way to build a resilient, thriving garden. Whether you’re releasing ...

More than a decade after the spotted lanternfly landed in Berks County, Pa. researchers are learning more about what eats them, and what makes them thrive.

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 ...

The praying mantis is usually the predator—quiet, focused, and deadly. But even this insect isn’t safe from a bizarre twist of nature: a parasite called the horsehair worm. It’s a strange little ...