Late one night in March 2025, on a small island in the Panama Canal, a researcher spotted something that looked almost fake: a bright, hot pink cricket-like insect perched under a light at the edge of ...

A bizarre rainforest insect is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about camouflage. A katydid spotted glowing hot ...

In 2025, researchers on Barro Colorado Island in Panama found something that looked almost like a prank played by the rainforest itself: an adult female katydid glowing hot pink under a station light.

Now that the colorful autumn leaves have fallen, we can see deep into the woods and spot things that were hidden earlier in the season. The other day, I saw a bush with pink leaves in our wooded area.

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