The graduate student who named a new species of bug after Lady Gaga deserves a round of "Applause." The creature dubbed Kaikaia gaga is a new species of treehopper — a group of insects that rival the ...

An insect with a “wacky fashion sense” is on the edge of glory: It’s been named after flashy pop star Lady Gaga. Brendan Morris, a graduate student studying entomology at the University of Illinois at ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- 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 ...

Horned treehoppers have the horned helmets to help "the treehoppers avoid predation through camouflage or intimidation," according to Nature Journal. 2. How many legs does a monkey slug caterpillar ...

They sport some of the most impressive headgear in the insect world, yet they're no bigger than a kernel of corn. They live all over the world, including in Storrs, mostly found in woods and gardens, ...

Lady Gaga‘s flamboyant visual style has inspired the name of a newly discovered insect species. Kaikaia gaga is a new genus of the treehopper bugs found almost three decades ago near the Pacific coast ...

Many fascinating creatures reside in the Amazon rainforest. In a YouTube video from the BBC, we get a glimpse of two amazing insects that have learned to work together. In the clip from Planet Earth ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Treehoppers are the wackiest, most astonishing bugs most people have never heard of, according to a young researcher. They are morphological wonders, sporting bizarre protuberances that look like ...

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 ...

A new genus of treehopper bugs found near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua has been named after Lady Gaga. Kaikaia gaga, named by Brendan Morris (a PhD candidate in entomology at University of Illinois ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A graduate student has ...