take a look at the treehopper nymph above! Who wouldn't hesitate to pick this one up? Though they don't seem like they need it, young treehoppers receive a lot of careful attention from their mothers.

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there were a competition for the world’s weirdest insect, treehoppers would have a clear shot at first place.

University of Missouri biologist Rex Cocroft, who has studied treehoppers for decades, captured some species’ courtship calls and those of nymphs and believes treehopper communication to be more ...

But treehoppers have never gotten their due ... Entomologists still don’t know what the K. gaga males and nymphs look like, how she interacts with other animals and what her “song” sounds ...

Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. one of the most biodiverse places on the planet That's where photographer Javier Aznar Gonzalez ...

Javier knew of ants protecting treehopper nymphs but had never seen a bee doing it. It took him several days of returning to the same spot to find this image, a stingless bee beating its wings to warn ...

Bocydium globulare, a treehopper with an unusual, helicopter-like helmet. Andreas Kay via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 As their name suggests, treehoppers are capable of some amazing acrobatics.

Everyone, meet Bocydium globulare. Better known as the Brazilian treehopper, B. globulare excels at living a solitary life, hanging out on the leaves of glory bushes, and head-sphering its way ...