Moringa horned treehopper "Leptocentrus moringae," photographed in Tamil Nadu, India. (Flickr photo by arian.suresh) When a mosquito lands and begins to feed, the saliva it deposits in the skin stops ...

Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. one of the most biodiverse places on the planet That's where photographer Javier Aznar Gonzalez de ...

The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a small, curious-looking insect from the family Membracidae that inhabits many tropical rainforests in South America. Related to cicadas and ...

Because holy crap, just look at that headgear. Everyone, meet Bocydium globulare. Better known as the Brazilian treehopper, B. globulare excels at living a solitary life, hanging out on the leaves of ...

An amplectic pair of treehoppers, Telamona monticola, was on a CU sidewalk beneath a swamp oak tree, Quercus bicolor. I surmised that they tumbled from the tree while delicately adjusting their ...

The treehopper family Membracidae is a wild and wacky bunch, the lesser known cousins of the less-than-appealing cicada. The slow process of evolution has led this family of bugs to split off into ...

A new treehopper bug species is named after Lady Gaga K. Gaga represents a new species and a new genus Treehoppers are often colorful and have unique ornamentations A new treehopper bug species is ...

Let’s just admit it: We all have body issues to some degree. I, for instance, was informed a few years back by a drunk lady in a bar that I am in fact slightly bow-legged, which was the first I’d ...

Evidence suggests at least one group of insects, the tiny treehopper, communicates using sound vibrations. Researcher Rex Cocroft has scoured a... Societies of Sound in the Forest Societies of Sound ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- According to Brendan Morris, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, treehoppers are the wackiest, most astonishing bugs most people have never heard ...

Why the treehopper developed the enlarged, three-dimensional hood ornament that distinguishes it from the rest of the insect world remains a mystery to scientists, though it's theorized that mimicry ...

An amplectic pair of treehoppers, Telamona monticola, was on a sidewalk at the University of Colorado beneath a swamp oak tree, Quercus bicolor. I surmised that they tumbled from the tree while ...