Their limited populations sometimes only live in one specific area – and for the world's rarest insect, this is a small, uninhabited sea stack in the Pacific Ocean. Meet the tree lobster.

The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect Was Once So Common, It Was Used As Bait Known colloquially as the “tree lobster” due to its large size and hard, glossy exoskeleton, this insect was a dominan ...

Whether insects can hit that tipping point and change their place in Western culture, like the lobster more than a century ago, is a question tied in with so many of the other culture battles ...