A photographic census of Australia's native insects and other bugs — and their unwelcome invasive counterparts — has been launched across Australia. The national citizen science project, dubbed Bug ...

New 'Giant Stick' Insect Species Discovered in Australia Has Been Growing For Millions of Years originally appeared on Parade. In a rainforest teeming with snakes, spiders, and all manner of hidden ...

Australian insect eggs are far more beautiful and clever than you think. Australian insects are truly incredible. There’s the mole cricket, which is basically the platypus of the insect world, and ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

Australia is baking through another extreme heat wave, with temperatures forecast to reach above 45°C for multiple days in a row across large swaths of the country. Heat waves are a deadly threat to ...

(via Deep Look) The Australian walking stick is a master of deception, but a twig is just one of its many disguises. Before it’s even born, it mimics a seed. In its youth it looks and acts like an ant ...