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Photo: This fossil insect wing (Stephanotypus schneideri) from the period about 300 million years ago when insects reached their greatest s...

The 10 Most Painful Stings On The Planet, By The Self-sScrificing Man Who Tried 150 Different Varieties In The Name Of Science -- Daily Mail...

The 49 million-year-old Huntsman spider seen using X-ray computed tomography. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Manchester) Imaging T...

The web of the Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini), can span some square feet (2.8 square meters) and is attached to each riverban...

From Live Science: Prepare to be bugged out of your minds, citizens of Earth, because I've got a new scheme that I’m just itching to unl...

THE ICK FACTOR The lab of Stephen A. Kells, a University of Minnesota entomologist. Bedbugs are not known to transmit disease. Allen Brisson...

(Credit: Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum) From Discovery News: If it seems like cockroaches have been around forever,...

Two males of dung beetle called Onthphagus taurus size up each other's horns. Credit: Alex Wild. From Live Science: After months of gru...

From ABC News: Scientists Say to Plant Milkweed to Help Save the Butterflies. Monarch butterflies normally find sanctuary in the mountains o...

This animal, Speleonectes tulumensis, is from a group of rare, blind, cave-dwelling crustaceans called "remipedes." The new analys...

Researchers are investigating new ways for developing a novel painkiller based on natural compounds found in the venom of scorpions. (Credit...

A new study sheds light on the flight behaviours that enable insects to undertake long-distance migrations, and highlights the remarkable ab...

Receptors are drawn to chemical in human sweat From Times Online: For some people, a mosquito in the room is a threat to any little patch of...

Monarch butterflies resting in a tree. (Credit: iStockphoto/Paul Tessier) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Jan. 27, 2010) — Building on pr...

Image of the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, an insect that is attracted to the sent of human blood. Credit: Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis...

There are more than 600,000 species of parasitic voodoo wasps and they already play a critical role as a natural regulator of insect populat...

Ladybug. Are ladybugs being overtaken by wasps? (Credit: iStockphoto/Klemens Wolf) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 26, 2009) — Are l...

A honeybee's brain weighs one mg and contains fewer than a million nerve cells From The Daily Mail: Insects with minuscule brains may be...

This light micrograph shows spider web threads coated with sticky droplets (left panel) and threads with helical twists (right panel) that w...

Swarming Ladies. Ladybugs are seen on cars in Chatham, Ill., Oct. 21, 2009. Around much of the country,legions of Asian lady beetles are mak...