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One Spider's Method to Prevent Overeating

Some spider brains are hard wired to kill and eat prey when it is captured. Replacing sticky threads with non-sticky ones prevents overindulgence. more...

Neurology of Insect Migration and Navigation

Genetically wired into insect brains are seasonal clocks, innate compasses, and maps that help these tiny long-distance migrants travel. more...

Newfound Understanding of Insect Migration

Migrating insects return to the same wintering locations while they fuel, rest, and use routes and flight patterns that are similar to those used by birds. more...

A Fantastic Dragonfly Migration

Dragonflies leave India, fly across the Indian Ocean to Africa with the assistance of storms, and their great grandchildren may make the return journey to India. more...

How to Avoid Tick Bites and Lyme Disease

Long, snowy winters and cool, rainy springs allow ticks to survive in high numbers. Thus, defensive prevention and tick checks are a must. more...

Wasp and Bee Stings

Wasps and bees have stingers to fight off rivals, defend nests, and deter predators. The insects vary in willingness to sting and the venom varies in the pain produced. more...

Beetles That Burrow and Tunnel

Whether carnivorous or herbivorous, many beetle larvae live invisibly inside plants or underground, sometime in numbers large enough to cause severe damage. more...

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Five Ways to Encourage Insects into Your Garden

By: Lynne Garner

Building your own bug homes is reasonably easy and can be done quite cheaply and is a great way of encouraging them into your garden. more...

A Short Guide to Royal Jelly

By: Jon France

Royal jelly is an intriguing substance that has been rumored to have many uses. But what exactly is it, and what does it do? more...

Recognizing Dangerous Household Bugs

By: Venice Kichura

Not all insects are bad. However, you need to know, as well as teach your children, which ones are harmful. more...

Wheel Bug: An Assassin in Your Bug Collection

By: Shantele Kempvanee

The wheel bug gives an extra something to any bug collection, but it is best to know as much about these assassins as possible before capturing or admiring them. more...

Raising Black Swallowtail Butterflies

By: Shantele Kempvanee

You can't get kids any closer to nature than watching the miraculous transformation of the infamous 'parsley worm' into the jeweled beauty known as the Black Swallowtail. more...

New Orleans Insect Museum

By: Feature Writer Carroll Trosclair

New museum will feature 30,000 insects and arachnids, many live and touchable and some edible. The list will include termites, cockroaches, scorpions, mosquitoes, spiders more...

The Black Widow Spider

By: Cyrus Dehkan

Black Widow Spiders are considered the most poisonous spiders in North America. The article reviews this spiders characteristics and its habitat. more...

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