Greg Sutton was closely inspecting the back legs of a planthopper nymph — a small green, flightless insect — when he noticed something odd. He's now a post-doc at the University of Bristol, in England ...

Igor Siwanowicz's image of planthopper nymph gears won 9th place in the Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition. Photo courtesy of Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, ...

The variety of ways insects manage to make themselves invisible never fails to amaze me, even after 30 years as an entomologist. Today's Moment of Nature Zen is a wee baby planthopper with what ...

A jumping insect has gears, scientists discovered, a rare instance in which man and nature independently converged on the same idea. It was not easy to verify. The planthopper (Issus coleoptratus) is ...

The image above is an extreme close-up of a common British insect called a planthopper. You’re looking at it from below, at the point where its two hind legs connect to its body. In the middle, you ...

In the time between hatching and becoming full-grown adults, tiny planthopper nymphs put on a flashy show. The planthoppers can secrete a waxy substance from their abdomen that results in strange, ...

The insect world is filled to the brim with strange, diminutive bugs that fly, murder, and dazzle—sometimes all at the same time. But the Ecuadorian Planthopper Nymph, tiny as it may be, still manages ...

Planthopper bugs may be small, but they attract mates from afar by sending vibrational calls along plant stems and leaves using fast, rhythmic motions of their abdomen. In a new study publishing March ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The brown planthopper (BPH) remains one of the most formidable threats to rice production across Asia, inciting extensive research into the genetic and physiological mechanisms underpinning host ...