Known for exceptional mimicry, stick insects have evolved a range of egg-laying techniques to maximize egg survival while maintaining their disguise – including dropping eggs to the ground, skewering ...

Left: Stick insect eggs collected from the excrement of brown-eared bulbul. Right: A stick insect born from a digested egg. Kobe University It’s hard to be an attentive parent when your entire life ...

Stick insects make a certain amount of sense, evolutionarily speaking. They look like sticks, or twigs, or leaves; thus camouflaged, they presumably have a better chance of avoiding predators, ...

Stuck in the ground, plants have a challenge when it comes to spreading their seeds. But the greenery has developed some surprisingly sneaky ways to get around their immobility—prickly seeds that ...

Female Lord Howe Island stick insects have laid more than 500 eggs at the San Diego Zoo in the past couple of months, the first time the critically endangered species has done so at a North American ...

Stick insects look just like the naturally-occurring sticks and twigs that surround them in a forest. This is an aesthetic feature that helps them evade predation more effectively than other insects.

It's commonly assumed that when insects are eaten by birds, they and their unborn young have no chance of survival. However, a team of researchers hypothesized that the eggs within insect bodies can ...

Scientists have created the best map of stick-insect evolution to date by combining DNA analysis and knowledge of their varied egg-laying techniques. The first stick insects flicked or dropped their ...

It’s obvious why a stick insect’s wardrobe is the way it is. Look like a stick, avoid getting eaten. But scientists in Japan noticed that despite their camouflage, stick insects became bird food quite ...