Male vs. Female Praying Mantis: Wings and Flying Ability . Most male praying mantises have longer wings than females, and while females are usually too heavy to take flight or do not need to fly ...

How the male praying mantis keeps its head during rough sex: Springboks WRESTLE with their female mates to avoid being eaten, study finds. Australian researchers studied a highly cannibalistic ...

A male Springbok praying mantis looking for a hook up doesn't have to worry about a female stealing his heart away. There is, however, a very good change she'll bite his head off, and he knows it.

South African praying mantis (Miomantis caffra) Female praying mantises are famous for attacking and cannibalising their mates during or after a sexual encounter, but evidence is emerging that ...

Males, picture this scene. Pheromones have triggered the let’s-have-sex instinct, but nature has created a female several times your size and, instinctively, you know an abundance of caution is ...

Is this a love story, or a ghoulish bedtime tale? — A male praying mantis approaches a female. Excited, he flaps his wings and sways his abdomen. Once he is on her back, he begins to mate. Then ...

As it turns out, when a male mantis loses his head, it doesn’t mean he loses the urge to procreate. You read that right.

Decapitated Male Mantis Still Fucks ... During sex, female praying mantises have a tendency to kill their partners with a decapitating cutting blow that would make a samurai proud.

Male praying mantises do not always survive the mating season. Between 13 and 28 percent of mating encounters end with sexual cannibalism, in which the female praying mantis bites off the head of ...

SEXUAL CANNIBALISM AMONG female praying mantids may actually benefit males, in an evolutionary sense, according to a new study. The research suggests that when a male mantis is eaten by the female ...