Because holy crap, just look at that headgear. Everyone, meet Bocydium globulare. Better known as the Brazilian treehopper, B. globulare excels at living a solitary life, hanging out on the leaves of ...

The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a small, curious-looking insect from the family Membracidae that inhabits many tropical rainforests in South America. Related to cicadas and ...

Moringa horned treehopper "Leptocentrus moringae," photographed in Tamil Nadu, India. (Flickr photo by arian.suresh) When a mosquito lands and begins to feed, the saliva it deposits in the skin stops ...

A new treehopper bug species is named after Lady Gaga K. Gaga represents a new species and a new genus Treehoppers are often colorful and have unique ornamentations A new treehopper bug species is ...

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. But ...

According to Brendan Morris, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, treehoppers are the wackiest, most astonishing bugs most people have never heard of. They are ...

Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? That is the hypothesis put forward in a new research paper published in ...

The Wild Treehopper is a small insect known for its incredible camouflage and unique, often strange with helmet-like body shape. Wild Treehoppers are found in forests, gardens and shrubs worldwide, ...

Why the treehopper developed the enlarged, three-dimensional hood ornament that distinguishes it from the rest of the insect world remains a mystery to scientists, though it's theorized that mimicry ...

Different types of mutualisms may interact, co-evolve and form complex networks of interdependences, but how species interact in networks of a mutualistic community and maintain its stability remains ...