The involvement of a gene in multiple biological processes is known as pleiotropy, and this phenomenon may explain the ...

A species of stick insects found in Britain have stopped having sex with their male counterparts and become a female-only population. The insects - found off the coast of Cornwall - reproduce ...

Many species of stick insect are parthenogenic; that is, females can lay fertile eggs without mating with a male. Salmon raised varieties of Acanthoxyla through a half dozen generations and found they ...

A male helmeted hornbill in southern Thailand prepares to deliver a large stick insect to his mate in the nest. While they mainly eat fruit, helmeted hornbills also consume rodents, snakes ...

The "twig" is a stick insect, a magnificent specimen ... and ecologically dominant social insects. But the male spiders have a problem with the basic strategy, for mating rituals demand that ...

Male thorn bugs use them to display their size ... It’s pretty easy to guess why walking sticks, also known as stick insects ...

California condors, stick insects, blind snakes ... resulting in offspring either all male or all female. When this method is the only mode of reproduction for an animal, it's called obligate ...

An Insect emerges from the egg as a grub ... Some choose small fragments of stick or reed, others make use of tiny stones, while still others gather together small shells, caring not whether ...

As the global population grows and traditional livestock production increasingly strains environmental resources, there is a rising interest in alternative protein sources. Edible insects, ...

The Kansas Wetlands Education Center’s 11th annual Butterfly Festival will be held on Saturday, September 28, from 9 a.m. – ...

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive.