The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) or praying mantis is a species of praying mantis native to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Praying mantis species can come in different colors, like brown, green or yellow. You might be most familiar with the green variety, as those are often depicted in photos, movies and so on.

Carolina mantis adult female in early autumn. Notice how her wings don’t reach the end of her abdomen, as they would with our other local mantids. Q: I’ve heard that not all of our praying ...

UC Davis alum discovers new species of praying mantis 01:58. A small discovery is now a big deal in the world of insects, and it's all thanks to a UC Davis alum.

Liturgusa Krattorum. Season 4 Episode 1 | 26m 25s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Kratt brothers rescue a new species of praying mantis from Zach, Donita, and Gaston. Aired 01/16/2017 ...

The newly discovered 'bush tiger mantis' prowls through Rwanda's underbrush in search of prey, report researchers.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her mark as a crusader in the courtroom — and will now do the same in the animal kingdom. In the six-legged march toward equality, a newly discovered praying mantis w… ...

Scientists describe a new species of praying mantis, Dystacta tigrifrutex, or the bush tiger mantis from Rwanda's mountainous Nyungwe National Park. The wingless females, adapted for catching prey ...

Carolina mantis adult female in early autumn. Notice how her wings don’t reach the end of her abdomen, as they would with our other local mantids. Q: I’ve heard that not all of our praying ...

On a cool and rainy night in a dense, mountainous forest in Rwanda, insect-surveying scientists discovered a new species of praying mantis, one whose wingless females are "vicious hunters" that ...

Until that moment, all that was known about one praying mantis species — Microphotina viridescens — was learned by observing males, according to an April 15 study published in the peer ...

The accounts covered 58 species, just over half of which had been seen performing startle displays. Many had unique combinations of moves. The Congo green mantis opens its mouth, shows its ...