Try to sneak up on a praying ... spines line the mantis's forelegs, enabling it to grasp the prey tightly as it eats, usually head first. Before chewing its prey with strong mouth parts, a mantis ...

Sheila Geraghty might be Spokane’s biggest fan of the praying mantis. She has a collection of glass and metal mantis art pieces. And when she encounters one of the otherworldly green creatures ...

Females, on guard. Until that moment, all that was known about one praying mantis species — Microphotina viridescens — was learned by observing males, according to an April 15 study published ...