Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...

Discover a list of insects that look like a flower, from the Orchid Praying Mantis to the Camouflaged Looper. Explore how ...

Giving whole new meaning to the term "bug eyed," researchers glue tiny glasses to the weird insect that sees and hunts in 3D in hopes of understanding 3D vision better. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

Dr. Gene Kritsky, dean of behavioral and natural sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cinncinati, Ohio, is an expert on the cultural perception of insects. He explained in an interview with Fox ...

One night in March of last year, a praying mantis crept onto a rooftop garden in India and perched on an artificial pond, waiting intently. When an unsuspecting guppy swam by, the insect snatched it ...

When you’re in the presence of certain insects — you might be in luck. Many bug species have been interpreted to bring good luck through different cultures, often based on historic events. And while ...

Try to sneak up on a praying mantis, and you may be surprised when it looks over its shoulder at you. No other insect can do this. This ability, along with their rather humanlike faces and forelegs ...

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The simple way the mantis sees could one day help small robots' perception by streamlining intensive computer algorithms. The research was published Thursday in Current Biology. In a video released ...

FREMONT - When most police officers are off the clock they tend to relax. When Fremont Police officer Lester Daniels clocks out, he spends his time diving into research on insects. After publishing a ...

This is the gruesome sight of a praying mantis feasting on the head of a bird it has just snared. Amateur photographer Tom Vaughan captured the grizzly sight in New Mexico before posting it to ...