A checklist of Dermaptera and Phasmatodea from Brazil is presented, from the Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna project, an online platform available at http://fauna.jbrj ...

Insects are extremely fascinating creatures. Stick bugs are among the most interesting, given their amazing camouflage and appearance. Like other insects, stick bugs also change skin, or molt, as they ...

Stick insects, part of the order Phasmatodea, are some of nature’s best masters of camouflage. These insects range from less than half an inch to up to a foot long. However, the longest discovered ...

A giant walking stick insect has stepped out of the treetops in north Queensland, and it is creating a stir for its size. It reaches about 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) in length, and weighs around ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...

Thank the deity of your choice for the genus Phasmatodea. That’s the entire group we collectively call stick insects, invertebrates that mimic the limbs and leaves of trees. For the most part, they’re ...

Stick bugs are a fascinating insect variety. They have uniquely camouflaged bodies that make them fun models in science education. But their eating habits can devastate trees and damage forests. This ...

Mauritiophasma n. gen. (Phasmatidae: Acanthomimini), which includes the sole species M. motalai n. sp., is described; Mauritiophasma is close to the genus Anophelepis Westwood 1859, which is ...

The stick insect t-shirt at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) Hands down, or hands up, those walking sticks in the Bohart Museum of Entomology's live petting zoo are ...

In March 2021, Davis Marthin Damaledo set out on foot accompanied by his father, Dantje, to pursue his childhood fascination with the natural world around his home in eastern Indonesia. As the father ...