Filmed in Borneo, with close-ups shot at a studio in England, the movie follows the lives of Papilio, a butterfly, and Hierodula, a praying mantis, from their hatching through growth, matings and ...

The male praying mantis (Hierodula tenuidentata) eating a guppy fish (Poecilia reticulata) starting from the tail, while the fish is still alive and breathing in the water. (Credit: Rajesh ...

He and his Indian colleagues identified it as a species called Hierodula tenuidentata Saussure, more popularly known as the giant rainforest mantis. It came back to the same roof garden pond five ...

we closely, and I mean closely, follow a Great Mormon butterfly named Papilio (from its scientific name, Papilio memnon) and a green praying mantis named Hierodula (Hierodula membranacea ...