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 ...

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 ...

Not much is known about the genus of planthopper known as Conosimus, which now includes six species after a new one was recently discovered in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish ...

This cave planthopper species new to science is only the second dwelling exclusively in the subterranean depths of Brazil from its family. Surviving without seeing the light of the day at any point of ...

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 ...

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 ...