For 15 years, Kuhlow, a 51-year-old former Stony Brook microbiology researcher, has been logging observations of leaf and bud appearances — in his own garden, or farther afield on a hike — into a ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

According to Mr Yap, a 28-year-old lab worker, these findings are “quite significant”, as the last known sample of the leaf-eating bug was collected in 1917 by American entomologist and ...