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 ...

Have you ever heard of the iconic leaf insect? Worth hundreds—even thousands—of dollars, these fascinating bugs can ...

Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay very still on their host plants to avoid predators. Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay still – very still – on their host plants to avoid hungry predators. But as they ...

In the intricate world of insects, few creatures capture the imagination quite like the flatid planthopper waxy nymph. These tiny, sap-sucking insects are more than just delicate figures that look ...

The dock leaf bug (Arma custos) is a predatory true bug that can attack and suppress many important agricultural and forest pests, including lepidopteran larvae and small beetles. It employs salivary ...

No-one does absent parenting like these clever critters. For a spiny leaf insect, motherhood begins and ends with a bunch of eggs passing through her gonopore (genital opening). She’s probably ...

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, ...