European mantis in green coloration. Credit: Photo by eLKayPics, licensed via Creative Commons. Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Sign up You may have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European mantis is the only native species of praying mantis in Europe. Photo: Getty Images Once considered an exotic insect, ...

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 ...

Summer brings a flush of insect life to Massachusetts, some more welcome than others. From butterflies to bees, ants to aphids, our six-legged friends are suddenly everywhere. Certainly one of the ...

A motionless European mantis (Mantis religiosa) waits to ambush a bee-mimicking fly. Then, seizing the fly with its forelegs, the mantis eats the mouthparts and eventually the face off the fly while ...

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 ...