Some female stick insects just don’t need males around, ever. They clone themselves, alter their pheromones to stay inconspicuous to unwanted suitors, and when males try to copulate with them, they ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Male stick insects are becoming increasingly redundant, with new research showing some New Zealand female stick insects can reproduce as efficiently on their own as with a male mate.

Significant χ 2 tests indicate that adding a given variable significantly increases the amount of deviance explained. Set 1 and set 2 crosses were performed in separate years. Agrell, J., J. O. Wolff, ...

Female Lord Howe Island stick insects have laid more than 500 eggs at the San Diego Zoo in the past couple of months, the first time the critically endangered species has done so at a North American ...

Despite having sex with males, females of a Japanese stick insect species produce offspring that are genetically identical to themselves. Combined with other evidence, it suggests that the males of ...