'Praying Mantis' is another blue-chip production from the master workshop of award-winning filmmaker Kurt Muendl. Programmes like 'An Everyday Monster' about the house fly, 'Shadow hunters' about ...

Igor Siwanowicz has spent years carefully acquiring, breeding and photographing praying mantises and other bizarre insects.Credit: IGOR SIWANOWICZ / BARCROFT MEDIA "I have always been fascinated by ...

This short timelapse of a praying mantis eating a fly is like a horror film directed by nature. From afar, watching a praying mantis catch a small bug isn't something most would bat an eye over. Up ...

A skin-crawling video showing a creature emerging from the corpse of a praying mantis is disturbing viewers who suggest the only way to deal with the situation is "a flamethrower". The clip, which has ...

At this time of year, some nurseries start selling the egg cases of Chinese mantis as a biological control for the garden. These alien-looking insects are praying mantis and are harmless to humans, ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...