Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick ...

Considered extinct for over 80 years, a chance find on a sea stack where little survives has sparked hope for the future of ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

Stick and leaf insects evolved 20 shared body features for camouflage, aiding survival. Scientists found these traits across ...

Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

Bats and birds showcase a fascinating contrast in their evolutionary paths, with recent research revealing bats' wings and ...

In the insect world things are often not what they seem, especially if you're a hungry predator. For 250 million years, insects have survived because they often appear to be something other than ...

Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...

At the ISEE lab, we integrate bottom-up (focused on specific interactions) and top-down (addressing broader community and ecosystem dynamics) approaches to investigate how symbiotic micro-organisms ...