Thorn bugs look just like thorns, but not just any thorns. They each have a cool-looking brightly coloured thorn sticking out of their heads! They are part of the treehopper family. These mantises ...

The ladybug that slipped into your home to stay warm for winter is no lady and no bug. Instead ... And though they look alike, belong to the same insect family and eat pests in our gardens ...

Suede Chen/ Shutterstock This minibeast might look like part fly, part scorpion, but it's actually neither. In fact, scorpion flies are more closely related to fleas than flies and belong to an order ...

Spotted lanternflies are extremely cool-looking bugs, with polka-dotted wings in shades of red, black and beige that make them resemble paper lanterns. But people should be very worried about this ...

So small, they look like tiny pieces of pepper flakes ... One thing you can take advantage of is the time of day. These bugs don't like cool weather. They also don't like cloudy days, either.

And now, the six-legged interloper is looking for a way back outside. If all goes well, the bug will return to nature and find a little romance, a good meal and a bit to drink. Shaken, not stirred.

Bizarre-looking bugs known as scale insects may be tiny but ... The team then collected scale insect egg sacs from both hot and cool zones and incubated them in hot and cool greenhouses.