His incredible interstellar camouflage doesn’t stop anyone from seeing him, but it does stop them from recognizing what he truly is. That’s the trick with camouflage, isn’t it?

Stick and leaf insects are a strikingly bizarre group of insects with a worldwide distribution. They are famous for their impressively large body size and their remarkable ability to camouflage ...

According to new research, it was the ascendancy of birds and mammals some 66 million years ago that inspired the range of camouflage adopted by stick and leaf insects. Top News U.S. News ...

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s greatest gifts in the animal kingdom. Sure, some animals have deadly toxins or surgically sharp claws, but these are active forms of defense. Camouflage is the ...

An international research team has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and leaf insect order, which are known ...

ABOVE: New World stick insects, from left to right: Pseudosermyle phalangiphora, Metriophasma diocles, and Peruphasma schultei CHRISTOPH SEILER T he scientific order Phasmatodea, or stick and leaf ...

For co-author Sven Bradler, the multiplicity of stick and leaf insects, which has only been added to by these new discoveries, has remained captivating over a more than 20-year research career: ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick ...

These herbivores look like leaves, twigs, and bark—giving new meaning to the phrase “You are what you eat.” Phasmids, commonly known as stick or leaf insects, often fade into the flora to ...

Most traditional stick-and-leaf camo designs are based on the way humans see the world. Sitka took a sharp turn from that approach with their Optifade patterns. Optifade motifs are designed to disrupt ...

Phasmids include insects like walking sticks, leaf bugs, and stick bugs. This unique group within the order Phasmatodea has some of the best camouflage in the insect world.