Small black flies buzzing around your house plants can be bothersome and unsightly. Although they are generally harmless, fly flies can grow immensely in number in no time. Watering your plants less ...

The way moth populations change can tell us how climate change is impacting local ecosystems. Shifts in insect populations ...

Meet Phobaeticus serratipes, commonly known as the giant walking stick or giant stick insect. This enormous insect takes camouflage to another level, mimicking twigs, branches, or leaves to avoid ...

Its heroes, twigs, are disguised as leaves. Yet, they move! The English-speaking world calls them stick insects, while the French more commonly refer to them as phasmes. The star of our story is ...

The same is true for stick insects. This makes identifying chromosomal rearrangements with species challenging when assembling genomes. In the past, we've averaged data from each chromosome set ...

The same is true for stick insects. This makes identifying chromosomal rearrangements with species challenging when assembling genomes. "In the past, we've averaged data from each chromosome set ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

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." When you purchase through links on our ...

A new mossy stick insect was spotted flaunting its figure in the moist, mossy Chocó forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new species, dubbed Trychopeplus mashpiensis in a new paper in ZooKeys, was ...

Other related stick insects have egg capsules “densely covered with long, hair-like yellowish fringes,” but the new species’ eggs are smooth, researchers said. The moss-covered branches ...

This order is comprised of a variety of insects that all appear incredibly similar to sticks and leaves, or some combination of the two. The moss mimic stick insect bears an incredible resemblance to ...