Oeggerli is as much a scientist as he is a photographer. His "camera" is actually a scanning electron microscope; and in addition to a Ph.D., he has an inordinate amount of patience. One of these ...

This is an image of stick insect eggs collected from the excrement of brown-eared bulbul, and the stick insects born from the eggs. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Look at the nail of your pinky finger. That’s about the width of the biggest known insect egg, which belongs to the earth-borer beetle Bolboleaus hiaticollis. The smallest egg, from the wasp ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We fool ourselves most days. We imagine the Earth to be ours, but it belongs to them. We have barely begun to count ...

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 ...