Stick insect relatives: different in appearance but of the same origin. Surprisingly, New World (above) and Old World stick insects (below) form their own evolutionary lines within this insect group, ...

A nine-year-old boy from Cumbria has set up his own business selling packets of Indian stick insect eggs. Alec Kemp from Windermere sold his first few eggs over the internet after becoming fascinated ...

Scientists have created the best map of stick-insect evolution to date by combining DNA analysis and knowledge of their varied egg-laying techniques. The first stick insects flicked or dropped their ...

Even though they are so strikingly different, these stick insects from the Old World are genetically more similar to each other than their relatives that are geographically distance in the New World.