The praying mantis got its name from the Greek word mantikos, which means soothsayer or prophet. This name was given to them ...

The adult praying mantises don’t survive our winters, instead the female will eventually produce an egg case-called an ootheca–which contains up to 200 eggs.

Praying mantises can grow to well over six inches. There are three distinct stages of growth from infancy to adulthood: egg, nymph and adult. Once the egg hatches, the nymph appears.

The adult praying mantis will live in the wild about one year. Our winter climate is too harsh for these insects to overwinter, thus it is important for them to reproduce for the next year.

A praying mantis (left), a horned treehopper (middle) and a species of an assassin bug (right) are photographed. Read on for fascinating and numerical facts on these bugs and others. (iStock) ...

Mantis are not picky about what they eat even if it’s one of their siblings. Anything of the right size is fair game, and their fellow egg case mates make the perfect single serving first meal.

Lohit Garikipati discovered a new species in the praying mantis family. He first spotted the bug a few years ago in Arizona, but it didn't molt into an adult.

At first glance, they resemble praying mantises, but they are not: mantis lacewings (Mantispidae) belong to the lacewings (Neuroptera) and occur worldwide, with around 400 species currently in ...