The animals most at risk from the black widow's bite are insects—and male black widow spiders. Females sometimes kill and eat their counterparts after mating in a macabre behavior that gave the ...

Almost everyone understands and appreciates the importance of bees, but there are many other insects and spiders that can help keep your yard and garden healthy. Insects are members of a vibrant ...

The caterpillar cloaks itself in the body parts of dead insects, crafting a protective casing out of the remains to camouflage itself while lurking on spider webs. This survival tactic seems to ...

Real live insects like spiders, locusts, and butterflies play crucial roles in many memorable blockbuster films. But getting them to perform on camera is no easy task. Steven Kutcher: Rosie ...

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking ...

What Are Insect Stings and Spider Bites? A sting happens when an insect injects venom into your skin. The venom travels through the bug’s stinger. If you get stung, you’ll feel pain.

A dead spider in a loaf of brown bread, a live insect in a burrito bowl and a pack of muesli full of maggots were among the issues complained about to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI ...