Houston Chronicle

Houston Zoo makes 'world's tiniest neck brace' for rare insect

The weakened area was causing the insect's head to flop all the way back due to its weight whenever the bug climbed upwards, according to the zoo. The species spends most of its time climbing and ...
IFLScience

Tiny Neck Brace Created For Peruvian Jumping Stick At Houston Zoo

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...
People

Zoo Vets Use a Cotton Swab to Make 'World's Tiniest Neck Brace' for a Struggling Bug

The teeny-tiny device kept the Peruvian jumping stick's "neck" from flopping around, per the zoo Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

‘World’s tiniest neck brace’ healed this insect at Texas zoo. See the small patient

Workers at the Houston Zoo crafted the “world’s tiniest neck” brace to help a tiny insect heal after shedding its exoskeleton. Photo courtesty of the Houston Zoo An entomology keeper at the Houston ...
KHOU 11

Injured grasshopper gets tiny neck brace at Houston Zoo

HOUSTON — An alert keeper in the Houston Zoo's Bug House recently noticed that a grasshopper was having trouble holding its head level. When the Peruvian jumping stick, which are stick-like ...