Bug lovers will recall that the female praying mantis cannibalizes the head of her sexual partner upon mating. Turns out this may not entirely accurate. Placing them in the same jar, the male, in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two scorpions do a courtship dance in the moonlight. A female praying mantis bites off a male's head and feasts on him while his rear end impregnates her. An assassin bug glues its ...

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 ...

While walking around Hawkins Preserve in Cortez on a recent morning, I happened upon an insect that is letting itself be seen more this time of year. I managed to carefully scoop her (or him) up in my ...

For the first time, researchers have described a new species of praying mantis based on female genitalia – and not the male’s. Also, it’s named after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The ...

Mike Maxwell recently finished a ninth season studying the love life of the praying mantises that live around Bishop, a town in California’s Eastern Sierra. Over that time, he’s seen some unsettlingly ...

The female praying mantis emits a sexual aura that draws a male to her. Just as they finish mating, the female, knowing the male has done his duty and is no longer needed, bites his head off and ...