I’d written, quite vividly for a third grader, about how the female praying mantis eats her husband after mating, usually starting with his head. And just before our teacher had asked us to turn ...

Female black widows sometimes eat their mates after copulation. Female praying mantises are known for biting off the male's ...

The largest and most formidable of garden insects is the praying mantis ... backward over its head. Its larvae are bright orange and feed on soft-bodied pests. Because they eat 60 different ...