Forty-plus named species, as well as another 700 or so awaiting scientific description, resemble drops of rainwater. Those singular shapes, insect anatomists explain, stem from the treehopper’s ...

An amplifier attached to a recording device allowed us to listen in on a variety of calls from several species. I was transfixed. Now I’d tapped into this secret treehopper world, I couldn’t ...

Treehoppers studied only engaged in behavior ... their reduced numbers could have a cascade effect across multiple other species, causing a potential catastrophe. "When insect populations start ...