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, ...

'Praying Mantis' is another blue-chip production from the master workshop of award-winning filmmaker Kurt Muendl. Programmes like 'An Everyday Monster' about the house fly, 'Shadow hunters' about ...

If the universe had not created the praying mantis naturally, I think a talented science fiction writer would have eventually. They’re so wonderfully bizarre they seem too incredible to be real. With ...