Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Its body might be a tiny 1cm, but that doesn't stop this deadly predator kill prey up to a metre in length and an enormous ...

The venom from the dauber’s sting acts as a preservative, keeping the prey in proper condition as a food source for the larvae. An egg is laid in each cell, stocked with several prey individuals. When ...

The Joro spider, a vibrant black and yellow arachnid native to eastern Asia, has been spotted invading Maryland.

Upon completion of its development, the new wasp will chew a hole in the cell wall and emerge. Some dauber species will not ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

Submitted by Russel Barsh, director of Kwiaht.

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

Little did Sandra Sánchez know, when she was out working in a Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) site in North Taranaki, that she ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.