Some spots along Blue Mountain are nearly devoid of any mast crop this year. It's the type of year that a few centuries ago would have led bands of Native Americans to relocate in search of better ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Murder hornets made headlines last week after they were reported to have emerged in the United States following sightings in Washington. The hornets, originating in Asia, can ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Most praying mantises eat insects. Occasionally, mantids are seen preying on more exotic menu times -- birds, small amphibians and reptiles, even mice. According to new research, they ...

McGowan notes he has seen mantises stalking hummingbird feeders before, but has never witnessed an attack. Anecdotal accounts of these insects devouring hummingbirds are brutal: Mantises have been ...

Experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman write, “These are the egg cases, called oothecae, of a praying mantis. Produced by the ...

As if 2020 couldn't get any worse, the world has now been put on alert by a new formidable foe: The "murder hornet." Last Saturday, the New York Times reported that the Asian giant hornet, better ...

About 1,800 species of praying mantids exist around the world. People often refer to any mantid as praying mantis, but mantises are part of a smaller group within the mantids. They get their name ...

Praying may save us from murder hornets after all. Wild video posted online shows a giant Asian hornet finally meeting its match: a brain-gobbling praying mantis. The clip starts with the mantis ...