I must look like a tiny, squirmy silverfish or an oversized white worm or maggot… “Look, there on the floor, you guys, it’s my boyfriend. I know it looks like a strange insect but it’s him.” [a friend ...

Apple snails can sicken humans if they are eaten raw or undercooked. Their egg masses also contain a toxin which can cause skin and eye rashes. The apple snail, a harmful invasive species, has been ...

As part of their project BioSCAN - devoted to the exploration of the unknown insect diversity in and around the city of Los Angeles - the scientists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ...

Large-headed beetles can readily crush snail shells with their powerful jaws, but cannot insert their oversized heads into the shells. Small-headed beetles can insert their heads into the shells for ...

The awkward stage of adolescence drives some insects to murderous home invasion. When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its ...

The risk of predation is perhaps the most pervasive form of stress in ecological communities and has substantial effects on the ecology and evolution of organisms and their communities. Using ...

I must look like a tiny, squirmy silverfish or an oversized white worm or maggot… “Look, there on the floor, you guys, it’s my boyfriend. I know it looks like a strange insect but it’s him.” [a friend ...

Scientists are discovering plenty of minute insects that are new to science, but they are still only guessing what the lifestyles of some of these species are. Scientists have now found out that one ...