Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...

If you thought praying mantises already look pretty cool, wait till you see them in these stunning shades. Scientists who put tiny 3-D glasses on these petite hunters have found that their ...

The large, odd-looking insect drew attention from my friends who had gathered on a recent afternoon. The praying mantis was slowly walking along the edge of the parking lot, not a bug friendly place.

While there are somewhere around 2,000 species of mantids around the world, only three are common on Staten Island. In addition to the native Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the European ...

In order to prove that invertebrates have stereopsis, or 3D vision, a team of researchers from Newcastle University have recently published a study in Scientific Reports that tested the vision of ...

The simple way the mantis sees could one day help small robots' perception by streamlining intensive computer algorithms. The research was published Thursday in Current Biology. In a video released ...

Social media is highlighting the surprising intelligence of praying mantises. These insects, known for their calm appearance, ...

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 ...

Praying mantises willing to wear 3D glasses and sit through bizarre, abstract movies have revealed a new way of seeing the world in three dimensions. The findings could help improve machine vision for ...

Here is my question: Are praying mantis insects a known predator of the dratted spotted lanternfly? And here is my summer 2019 story: I have had great fun since early July following a praying mantis ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Murder hornets made ...