A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many social media posts and videos try to offer a variety of herbal and essential oil concoctions intended to keep spiders out of ...

With Christmas less than a month away now, many Brits will be looking forward to putting up their tree. But as well as festive cheer, your fir could also bring unwanted visitors into your home, an ...

PRIMARY school staff were horrified last week when they discovered a venomous spider nestled in their banana delivery. Kitchen staff at a Cambridgeshire school found the giant huntsman spider between ...

Nature's 'sleeper beast,' the praying mantis, belies its calm facade with lethal predatory prowess. These insects, masters of stealth and speed, possess remarkable 3D vision and lightning-fast strikes ...

An international student has been fined A$35,000 (US$22,700) after he was caught trying to smuggle 125 spiders and insects out of Australia, as the country continues to crack down on a growing illegal ...

ARACHNOPHOBES, look away now – what might be the world’s biggest spider web has been found. Hidden deep inside a pitch-black cave is a mammoth web that houses upwards of 111,000 spiders, researchers ...

Watch as a spider, a skilled insect predator, confronts its prey in a natural setting. Labour council orders woman to remove 4ft gorilla statue from outside home Car company makes urgent recall with ...