Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...

If you haven't heard about murder hornets invading the US, you probably are living an innocent, "insect nightmare"-free existence under lockdown. Some of the rest of us are wondering when murder ...

Never harm a praying mantis, you could get in big trouble.” But is that really the law… or just playground mythology?

Let’s talk about praying mantids in your garden. The first thing many of you are thinking as you’re reading this is something like the following. “’Praying mantids?’ I always called them ‘praying ...

Birds feast on bugs, not the other way around. But that role-reversal is what Mahmood Kolnegari of the Avaye Dornaye Khakestari Institute, in Iran, and Connor Panter of the University of Nottingham, ...

A video taken in Berthoud, Colorado, shows a dog's encounter with a praying mantis. Colorado is home to seven mantis species, and the insects are known to eat both beneficial and harmful bugs. Bears ...

The praying mantis is one of the few insects with compound eyes and the ability to perceive 3D space. Engineers are replicating their visual systems to make machines see better. Self-driving cars ...