Quick Take Leaf insects are native to South Asia and Australia, and illegal to import to the U.S. The rare Phylliidae can ...

No-one does absent parenting like these clever critters. For a spiny leaf insect, motherhood begins and ends with a bunch of eggs passing through her gonopore (genital opening). She’s probably ...

"Australia has a rich diversity of phasmids, otherwise known as stick and leaf insects. Most of them are endemic, few have been studied and new species continue to be found. Stick insects are, by far, ...