Gavin Svenson heads to the Brazilian rainforest to sample the diversity of mantises. Mantis expert Gavin Svenson heads to the Brazilian amazon to sample the diversity of mantises in the forest. It is ...

A team of scientists have discovered and named three new "leaf-planking" praying mantis species and recorded another mantis species turning up far from its assumed habitat. JCU Ph.D. candidate Matthew ...

The praying mantis is thus named because of the interesting way it holds its front two legs, looking like they are in a praying position. The word ‘mantis’ actually comes from the Greek “mantikos,” ...

Cleveland Museum of Natural History Director of Research & Collections and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Dr. Gavin Svenson and former Case Western Reserve University graduate student, Henrique ...

This summer, unusually many praying mantises can be spotted in German gardens. How to distinguish the "Mantid religiosa" from ...

Two striking Asian praying mantis species that have rapidly spread across Europe have now been officially classified as invasive, raising new concerns about their impact on native wildlife. Boosted by ...

There’s nowhere you can hide from the praying mantis. The ferocious insects are known to feast on a veritable buffet of living creatures, including everything from butterflies and newts to snakes, ...