But their most distinctive feature is that high, narrow dorsal crest, referred to as a helmet. Treehopper species seem to specialize in bizarre helmets. Helmets look like part of the head, but careful ...

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 ...

Related to cicadas and leafhoppers, the nearly 3,300 Membracidae treehopper species have evolved distinctive forms of mimicry to support their survival, including faux thorns, helmets, wings ...

Meet the Mother Monster of the insect world. Her name is Kaikaia gaga (named for Lady Gaga, natch) and she’s every bit as otherworldly as the pop diva. She wears a pair of devilish horns on her ...

Rex Cocroft has made a career out of capturing the live performances of one species – treehoppers – to better understand how they communicate. The University of Missouri professor of biology ...

Kaikaia gaga is a newly identified species of treehopper, an ostentatious but little-known insect group that populates most forests on Earth. A paper detailing her discovery was recently published ...

Treehoppers are a plant-feeding species found on every continent on Earth except Antarctica. They communicate by vibrating part of their bodies, usually the muscles, moving up and down.

Mahoraga is one of the strongest shikigami in Jujutsu Kaisen, who has a fanbase of his own because of his fight against the King of Curses during the Shibuya arc. The fight was a grand experience ...

we listen in on dime-sized treehoppers in conversation. But how did the crew manage to record the sound of a creature we can't even hear? "There are at least 200,000 species out there singing in ...

“Discovering so many new species of mammals and vertebrates is ... a veritable teacup treehopper that measures just 5.5 inches long. That’s around a third of the length of an Eastern gray ...

Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug ...

Several insect species with striped coloration overlap with the jumping spiders in the paper, including monarch caterpillars, treehopper nymphs and cucumber beetles. When it comes time to avoid ...