An international research team has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and leaf insect order, which are known for ...

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

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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 ...

For at least 47 million years, some insects have escaped predators by looking like foliage and moving like swaying leaves, a new fossil find suggests. Many creatures elude predators by blending into ...

After the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period that triggered the dinosaurs' extinction and ushered in the Paleocene, leaf-mining insects in the western United States completely ...

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Some insect larvae live in leaves and tunnel around in them for food, leaving behind distinctive feeding paths and patterns of droppings. When the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit at the end of the ...

Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the ...