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 ...

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 ...

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and ...

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 ...

The level of magnification in this image makes it easy to distinguish this walking leaf insect from the actual leaf behind it. However, if you were looking at this insect from a little farther away, ...

There are many animals in the animal kingdom that live in the wild. Therefore, it becomes important for them to defend themselves in order to survive. These defense mechanisms differ in every animal ...