Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Like other insects, individual bees survive our harsh winters in diapause, overwintering in different stages of their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Those individuals survive safe from the ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

Springtails, an ancient arthropod, are commonly found in snow at this time of year. Here's what gave them the nickname, "snow ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

A 27-year-old woman from the USA, Whittney Dawn, has had nine kids till date from four different men, starting with a teen ...

Stallergenes Greer, a global leader in allergy therapeutics, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Entomon s.r.l., an Italian company specialising in the production of ...

Where is Bertha Russell when you need her? While The Gilded Age’s commanding chatelaine couldn’t be more removed from her ...

Two students from Maryland are being recognized by state and national organizations after creating an app that spotlights the ...

Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right ...