Males, picture this scene. Pheromones have triggered the let’s-have-sex instinct, but nature has created a female several times your size and, instinctively, you know an abundance of caution is ...

Female praying mantids are notorious for sexual cannibalism -- that is, for eating their male partner during mating. However, the possibility that males may have something to gain from this violent ...

Everybody knows that the female praying mantis will sometimes eat her partner after he’s mated with her. But new research suggests that some female mantids on the verge of starvation will actually ...

In one of the most spectacular displays of sexual cannibalism, male praying mantises can get their heads ripped off while copulating with females. But now, researchers have discovered that starving ...

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 ...

Sometimes life’s just not fair. It’s bad enough that male praying mantises in New Zealand are finding themselves more attracted to invasive South African females than to their own species. But of all ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.View full profile Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. One of the most famous facts about ...

During sex, female praying mantises have a tendency to kill their partners with a decapitating cutting blow that would make a samurai proud. But as this shocking new video shows, just because a male ...

One of the most loved insects in the world and one of the most feared by other insects is the praying mantis. The family includes 2200 species in nine families around the world in both temperate and ...