Even though I know that praying mantises are not native to New England and that they are not beneficial (due to their voracious appetites for anything small and alive) I still wait for them to ...
Praying mantises are adept at ambushing their prey with their specialized legs and swift reflexes. But when one goes for a Bombardier beetle, it gets a highly unpleasant chemical surprise.
There were significantly fewer spotted lanternflies feasting on vegetation across the city this summer, and entomologists credited human intervention — stamping out the tree-killers on sight — with ...
image: Cues to second-order motion enable mantises to detect prey and subsequently capture them using stereoscopic vision. view more Credit: Image courtesy of Newcastle University, UK. 一项 ...