The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

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Q: In my morning walk around the garden, I found an unusual pattern on the leaves of my Arabian jasmine. Do you have any thoughts on what might have caused this? A: This meandering or serpentine ...

An insect with a broad range across North America seems to be developing an appetite for an important cash crop: soybeans. The leaf-mining insect was previously known to only feed on two plants, but ...

There are a lot of animals on Earth that use camouflage to blend in with their surroundings, but perhaps one of the better examples of this in action is the humble leaf insect, which can look exactly ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the discovery of a 47 million year old fossil of a lead insect, new research suggests that cryptic leaf-mimicking camoflauge is a time-tested strategy used by insects to avoid predators. Extant ...

Nature is beautiful and mysterious. Both these aspects are often showcased through various images and videos shared online. Shares that show the enigmatic side of nature often leave people mesmerised ...

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 ...