For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

They joined an expedition to Ball’s Pyramid, a tall sea stack about 14 miles from Lord Howe Island, where a few climbers had reported stumbling on suspicious insect remains. Hidden haven of Lord Howe ...

The swelling may last 7 days. Insect bites of the upper face can cause severe swelling around the eye. This is harmless. The swelling is usually worse in the morning after lying down all night. It ...

Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be preserved when possible. Social wasps are a group of related insects belonging primarily to the family Vespidae (sometimes called ...

I found this online: “While animals are stuck on glue boards, they cry out loudly in pain and have been known to bite through their limbs, attempting to free themselves. Even if found and rescued, ...

Doctors and dermatologists pay special attention to a few elements of an insect bite when trying to decipher the cause, she explains, such as bite "patterns and where on the body they were bitten." ...

But Drs Rossi and Welch were happy to entertain a wilder hypothesis: that the bats might, instead, be able to feed off proteins in the way some bloodsucking insects do. Tsetse flies and female ...

Before UF/IFAS scientists started this research a few years ago, they knew that certain Bt proteins could kill other sap-sucking insects, but none were known to kill Asian citrus psyllids.

The noisy insects have been silent for a few months now, but come spring 2025 their songs will ring out again. Broods of periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years. Some years ...

While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a 65-year-old grasshopper collection, scientists have documented that some species -- those ...

to name a few. They're harmless, so many of us grow up playing with roly-polies, picking them up, and inspecting them up close. While they look like millipedes, roly-polies (Armadillidiidae sp.) are ...