The squad of insects captured in this extraordinary YouTube clip is among the most visually striking you are likely to come across. They look like exotic plants or delicate mini-sculptures, but they ...

DEAR STEPHEN: Consider yourself a lucky gardener. These growths are actually egg sacks of the praying mantis, a beneficial insect for your garden. Two praying mantis egg sacks. The one on top is from ...

I found a praying mantis in my garden recently. It was bright green, about 3 inches long. The turning head and upright posture of mantids gives them a unique appearance. The praying mantis may be ...

Try to sneak up on a praying mantis, and you may be surprised when it looks over its shoulder at you. No other insect can do this. This ability, along with their rather humanlike faces and forelegs ...

I found a praying mantis on my garage floor recently. I carefully moved it (they are known to bite) into my garden. It was light brown, about 3 inches long. The turning head and upright posture of ...

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, ...

Decades from now, when humanity has been reduced to small populations hiding in catacombs deep beneath the earth from the Praying Mantii Overlords, they will think back to that fateful, accursed day ...

The praying mantis was perched on my mountain mint, stock-still, unlike the mint leaves that rustled in the wind. All green like the mint, the big insect could easily have been a botanical appendage, ...

I have several phobias, one being an irrational fear of spiders. The other day I spotted a large spider eying me from the carpet a few feet from my office desk. Certain that it was about to charge and ...

An invasive praying mantis species has established itself in parts of North America, bringing a highly efficient ambush predator into closer contact with native ecosystems and residential areas.

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I found these growths on my crepe myrtle bush when I was pruning. Can you identify them for me? Are they harming my plant? Stephen M., Brentwood DEAR STEPHEN: Consider yourself a ...