Much like the other gall, the female midge lays her eggs on young developing oak leaves shortly after the leaves emerge from the leaf buds and are just starting to flatten out. The larvae are tiny ...

It’s a boy! Science World staffers were in disbelief after a male stick insect was born into an all-female colony in what is ...

A female from the newly described species Pulchriphyllium ... “There are around 3,500 known species of stick and leaf insects and there are currently just over 100 described species of leaf ...

For example, the eggs of a leaf insect in Indonesia, Phyllium letiranti, echo the seeds of the tropical ivy gourd plant. Other attributes also increase eggs’ likelihood of survival, Büscher says.

Scientists studied the internal anatomy that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of Brazilian cave insects. By Jack Tamisiea The penis has a variety of peculiar shapes and sizes ...

Walking leaves make up roughly 2% of the vast phasmatodea order, so seven new species make for a significant addition to the Phylliidae, or leaf insect, family.

Female stick insect clones itself despite having sex with males. After sex with males, females of Japanese stick insect species Ramulus mikado have offspring that are genetically identical to ...