More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

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Let's talk about praying mantids in your garden. The first thing many of you are thinking as you're reading this is something like the following. "'Praying mantids?' I always called them 'praying ...