As a female and male pair stick together and fly around in masses, complaints have been raised. Local governments have been watering them down, stating they are beneficial insects. In response, ...

Annual cicadas, sometimes referred to as “dog day” cicadas, usually emerge in July and August every year, Chris Hayes, an ...

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 being described as an “extremely rare” event.

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 being described as an “extremely rare” event. Science World’s stick insect ...

A QUESTION OF REPRODUCTION: Mary Morgan-Richards is researching the mating habits of stick insects and possible links to global warming.WARWICK SMITH / Manawatu Standard Southern females like to ...

Giant Stick Insects: These creepy critters are champions of length, with some species like Phobaeticus chani measuring over 22 inches (56 cm) with their legs outstretched. 15 Mar, 2025 Gazi Abbas ...

The researchers had been collecting stick insects from across Japan for years but had never encountered a male. “In fact, we have never personally found a male R. mikado in nature,” said ...

The rare males collected in the field have external genitalia characteristic of male stick insects and actively mated with females of the same species. However, when the genotypes of the offspring ...

A male T. mashpiensis jazzes up its look with a new droplet-based accessory. | Conle, et al. (2024) The A-list stick insect in the genus Trychopeplus is Trychopeplus laciniatus, an extremely ...

M. montanus are a bit larger than M. khoii. The male holotype was about 2.9 inches long, and females of the species reached nearly 3.9 inches long, according to the study.