Whether we’re eating prawns or fish, chicken or sheep, we tend to remove the guts of animals before eating their meat. There’s another predator that shares our culinary practice: the Chinese mantis.

Q. I have a friend who told me I need to go out in my garden and remove and destroy any invasive Chinese praying mantis egg cases I can find in my landscape and garden. I thought mantises were ...

In March, some nurseries will start selling the egg cases of Chinese mantis, as a biological control for your garden. These alien-looking insects are praying mantis and are harmless to humans, but ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Social media feeds have been filled with praying mantises recently and the reason for that -- to put it in millennial terms -- is because they are out and about and frantically ...

While there are somewhere around 2,000 species of mantids around the world, only three are common on Staten Island. In addition to the native Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the European ...

Introduced accidentally into the eastern part of the United States in the late 19th century, Tenodera sinensis—Chinese praying mantis—is as cherished as it is demonized. I admit to having emotions ...

In a now-viral video, a TikToker is calling out the sale of invasive Chinese mantises at garden supply stores, sparking discussion about the popular pest control remedy in the comments. In the video ...

Have you ever noticed strange, almost alien-like, sacs on your plants? Most people think they are cocoons, but these foamy-looking masses are the egg cases of mantises. The unassuming sacs contain ...

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, ...