A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery. A female Phyllium asekiense, a leaf insect from Papua New Guinea. Like many leaf insects, P. asekiense was known only from ...

With the discovery of a 47 million year old fossil of a lead insect, new research suggests that cryptic leaf-mimicking camoflauge is a time-tested strategy used by insects to avoid predators. Extant ...

At the Montreal Insectarium, entomologists have cracked a century-old mystery around an elusive leafy insect. Scientists have long wondered how a species of stick insects appeared in nature with ...

With their extraordinary ability to mimic twigs and leaves, stick insects are among nature’s most renowned masters of disguise. But it’s not just predators they’ve managed to avoid. Sneaky phasmatodae ...

The level of magnification in this image makes it easy to distinguish this walking leaf insect from the actual leaf behind it. However, if you were looking at this insect from a little farther away, ...

Forget dog-eat-dog world; for some smaller critters like the leaf-footed insect, it’s a bug-wrestle-bug world. Leaf-footed bugs are a family of insects with an estimated 2,000 species worldwide, most ...

An ancient stick insect species may have mimicked plant leaves for defense, according to a new article. Many insects have developed defense mechanisms, including the ability to mimic the surrounding ...