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

The evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most varied herbivores on Earth, was investigated by researchers from the Max ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Tübingen, ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.

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 ...

Such data helps us better understand how convergent evolution works. The researchers also found that insects with similar body plans tend to share an ancestor, even if they have different ...

Generally we think of flowers as offering food to the insects that pollinate them. Evolution has produced many flower species that pretend to have food that insects want, emitting scents of ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores.

Based upon observations of social insects, he reasoned that the extent ... Whereas kin selection likely underlies the evolution of many cooperatively breeding societies, it alone cannot explain ...

These similarities enable researchers to predict stick insect evolution, even when the critters have evolved independently from one another for tens of millions of years, according to the new ...