Meet the roly-poly pill bug, a backyard “bug” that is actually a crustacean cousin of shrimp and crabs living on dry land.

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Cicadas don’t excrete urine in droplets like most small insects. Instead, they produce powerful jets of fluid, a behavior ...

You’ve been eating it your whole life, and it’s perfectly OK.

There's nothing quite like that sigh of relief when you finally drop your bags in your hotel room, until a nagging thought ...

The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously thought. SNSB researchers have succeeded in clarifying the phylogenetic ...

Springtails, an ancient arthropod, are commonly found in snow at this time of year. Here's what gave them the nickname, "snow ...

Raw sewage on the ground and flying insects around dirty aprons and towels make up the top violations in the Pensacola area's ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Tap a small beetle on a table and it may suddenly collapse, tuck in its legs, and lie perfectly still. Many insects do this.

Scientists have discovered that a microscopic parasitic worm can propel itself astonishing distances through the air by using ...

Bark beetles moving between trees routinely carry two fungi that are responsible for the Dutch elm tree disease outbreak.