leaproach

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Called a leaproach, the insect only infrequently scuttles like a regular roach.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
So the leaproach spreads out its appendages like a falling skydiver, presumably to influence where it lands.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
The new study reveals the leaproach uses its legs much like grasshoppers do, and yet - ounce for ounce - the leaproach far out-jumps locusts.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
About 4,000 species of cockroaches are known to science, and all but the leaproach scuttle on the ground.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
When the moment to jump arrives, the leaproach extends its legs, activating the spring-loaded knees.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
While a grasshopper can jump up to 20 body lengths, a leaproach can sail forward 48 body lengths.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
Images: Mike Picker 1 A leaproach on a blade of grass.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
Picker and his colleague Jonathan Colville discovered the leaproach in 2006 as the insects hopped around a field of sedge grass in South Africa.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011
The "leaproach" was discovered in South Africa's Table Mountain National Park.

News 2011
The "leaproach" was discovered in South Africa's Table Mountain National Park.

News 2011