Orchid Mantis: The Expensive Exotic Insect You Thought Was a Flower

A hefty price tag generally comes with the privilege of owning exotic pets. Many do not mind, however, as they enjoy the ...
Post Register

CONNELLY: The praying mantis an otherworld insect

Praying mantises were pretty common in Bingham County this year, but every time I saw one, I was reminded of a campy science fiction movie about earth-based soldiers fighting giant insects on a ...
WTOP News

Students lobby to dethrone Connecticut’s state insect, the voraciously predatory praying mantis

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey bees and ladybugs. Connecticut has designated a voracious predator as its ...
Salt Lake City Weekly

Goodbye Mormon cricket, hello praying mantis—Utah's insect neighbors are bellwethers for change.

I was startled. A praying mantis materialized in the flowers, inches from my hand. I was watering with a hose, and the big bug made its way gingerly up a nearby fence to escape the water. I was ...
News4Jax

Students lobby to dethrone Connecticut's state insect, the voraciously predatory praying mantis

HARTFORD, Conn. – When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey bees and ladybugs. Connecticut has designated a voracious predator as its bug-to-be ...
Yahoo

Students lobby to dethrone Connecticut's state insect, the voraciously predatory praying mantis

Sue Katherine Boye Williams, 16, a junior at the Watkinson School in Hartford, Conn. and Chris Tracy, 19, a senior at the school, stand near an inlaid design of Connecticut's current State Insect, the ...