At every stage in their lives, from egg to adult, leaf and stick insects prove to be prey that can trick their predators. The giant Malaysian leaf insect (Pulchriphyllium giganteum) starts life as a ...

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 ...

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Nature is full of wonders, but few are as astonishing as insects that can disguise themselves as leaves, flowers or twigs so convincingly that even predators cannot tell the difference. These masters ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sometimes it is better not to be noticed. A number of insect species look so much like sticks or leaves that they simply blend in with the foliage, providing camouflage that ...

From your picture (see below), it looks like something is eating the leaves between the veins (an inconvenient process called “skeletonization”). This is most likely caused by insects, and several ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

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 ...