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

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on ...

Insects that eat leaves create different kinds of damage. While you will not always see the bug that's doing the eating, you will almost certainly notice the destruction. Here's how to identify the ...

Light pollution disrupts circadian rhythms and ecosystems worldwide – but for plants, dependent on light for photosynthesis, its effects could be profound. Now scientists writing in Frontiers in Plant ...

Plants that grow under the glare of artificial lighting like streetlights have tougher leaves that insects find hard to eat, new research has found. This finding suggests that artificial light at ...

A recent Journal of Orthoptera Research article describes two newly identified katydid species endemic to the southern Appalachian Mountains. The study examined the morphology and acoustic behaviors ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The June bug is also called the May beetle or June beetle. There are over 100 species of June bugs, and all of them start their lives as white grubs once they hatch from their eggs. These grubs can ...