Why would evolution create animals that die after sex? Discover 5 creatures whose mating ritual is their last act, and the wild logic behind it.

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She adds that many people also know the lore of how a female praying mantis may sometimes eat their partner after mating. With that backstory, some may be quick to think of the insect in a ...

The praying mantis is a carnivorous bug that isn’t picky about its diet. In fact, it’ll eat just about anything that comes its way. Mantises will feed on tiny nesting birds, mice, lizards, and tree ...

The Deadly Dance of the Praying Mantis (image credits: unsplash) Few courtship rituals are as infamous as that of the praying mantis. During mating, the female sometimes begins to eat the male, ...

A Colorado dog trying to chase off a praying mantis may have been barking up the wrong tree in Berthoud. Watch the silly ...

The term ‘praying mantis’ is used to refer to a group of insects that adopt a praying posture when their front legs are at rest. They are all long and narrow, and have a distinctive elongated ...

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Black widow spider Just like the praying mantis, black widow spiders also kill and eat the male spider after mating, thus becoming ‘widows’.

This past week, right around mid-June, I received my first question about Japanese beetles. Throughout a growing season, plants, insects, diseases and many other natural processes emerge, develop ...

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