It felt like anything could have happened on that dark night.The sky opened like a tear and rain poured out, freezing and insistent. I had just reached my desti ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating behaviors among insects and arachnids.

The 41st Annual Bald Eagle Appreciation Days, taking place this weekend, will see a lot of activity packed into Saturday, ...

Giant ocean-dwelling isopods are on the menu in Vietnam. Scientists discovered a new species among specimens captured for the ...

Thanks to scientists’ continuous pursuit of uncovering the unknown, our surprisingly limited knowledge of Earth’s ...

Bọ biển, or “sea bugs,” are large isopods that have come to rival lobsters in “quality of the flesh” as a sought-after seafood delicacy. Often multiple pounds in weight, the insect-like deep-sea ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

"Their eyes and ears will be critical to quickly responding and managing this threat." Texas-based rancher Morgan Treadwell, in a post to X: "The New World screwworm (NWS) is a parasitic fly whose ...

Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded ...

“Their eyes and ears will be critical to quickly ... isolation from other animals or people, and, integrally, the presence of fly larvae in wounds, the release states.

Texas wildlife officials are on the lookout for a flesh-devouring fly larvae known as the "Man-eater" after cases of the ...