New research has found that Australian female mantis can fake fertility to lure mates and then eat them. Katherine Barry of Macquarie University in Sydney conducted a study on false garden mantis, or ...

Praying may save us from murder hornets after all. Wild video posted online shows a giant Asian hornet finally meeting its match: a brain-gobbling praying mantis. The clip starts with the mantis ...

Bug lovers will recall that the female praying mantis cannibalizes the head of her sexual partner upon mating. Turns out this may not entirely accurate. Placing them in the same jar, the male, in ...

Female praying mantids are known for eating their mates, but what is the evolutionary advantage to this practice? This series of images is taken from film shot for Evolution: "Why Sex?" It depicts two ...

Everybody knows that the female praying mantis will sometimes eat her partner after he’s mated with her. But new research suggests that some female mantids on the verge of starvation will actually ...

This is the gruesome sight of a praying mantis feasting on the head of a bird it has just snared. Amateur photographer Tom Vaughan captured the grizzly sight in New Mexico before posting it to ...