Even though I know that praying mantises are not native to New England and that they are not beneficial (due to their voracious appetites for anything small and alive) I still wait for them to show up ...

'A Real Bug's Life', the new Disney+ original series from National Geographic, used cutting-edge filming technology to capture insect drama Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

It was truly a Zen moment as I basked in the first warm sunshine that we’ve had after the recent spell of chilly, foggy fall mornings. Yes, it’s easy to be spoiled by our typically mild weather. I was ...

As you probably know, the female praying mantis will sometimes bite her mate’s head off. It’s not something that the insects make a habit of, exactly – they probably only do it when a male is ...

As an undergraduate, Lohitashwa Garikipati worked in the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis. (Kathy Keatley Garvey/UC Davis) Lohitashwa Garikipati ’17 just discovered a new species of praying ...