Photo Caption: The Texas giant walking stick is the longest insect in the US. Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Several readers have asked me to identify giant insects in photographs they have sent.

Insects all over the Earth come in all shapes and sizes, from pesky mosquitoes to beautiful butterflies. The teeny tiny fairyfly, for example, grows less than 0.25 inches long, while the stick insect ...

Insects have long rivaled the best human illusionists, creating magic right before our eyes. However, one particular bug stands out from the rest, not only in size but in its ability to blend ...

NEOSHO, Mo. (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Conservation shared a photo of a giant walkingstick. They said Jimmy Sexton took the photo of the insect on his property near Neosho. It measured 9.5 ...

NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia (CNN) - A researcher in Australia has identified a new supersized stick insect. The species was discovered in high altitudes in North Queensland. The insect measures about ...

A previously unknown giant stick insect has been discovered in the high-altitude rainforests of Australia — and it may be the heaviest insect ever recorded in the country. The colossal critter, which ...