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 ...

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 ...

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 helps keep them out of the ...

Katydids are green insects, related to crickets, using extraordinary camouflage for survival in trees and shrubs. Their leaf-like wings fold, mimicking natural leaf movements. Katydids usually live up ...

At every stage in their lives, from egg to adult, leaf and stick insects prove to be prey that can trick their predators. The giant Malaysian leaf insect (Pulchriphyllium giganteum) starts life as a ...

Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay very still on their host plants to avoid predators. Giant Malaysian leaf insects stay still – very still – on their host plants to avoid hungry predators. But as they ...

Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the ...

A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery. A female Phyllium asekiense, a leaf insect from Papua New Guinea. Like many leaf insects, P. asekiense was known only from ...

A fossil of a leaf-imitating insect from 47 million years ago bears a striking resemblance to the mimickers of today. The discovery represents the first fossil of a leaf insect (Eophyllium messelensis ...

For at least 47 million years, some insects have escaped predators by looking like foliage and moving like swaying leaves, a new fossil find suggests. Many creatures elude predators by blending into ...

Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage relates directly to diversity of the ...