~Illustration by: Pete Hillstrom~ Spiders would probably be a lot less terrifying if they had to wear roller skates. @gruntmuffin...

(YouTube link) This ad shows how efficient Sn...  ...sors are by inferring that they can be powered by insects . And if you care about cruelty to bugs, you shoul...

If you're one of those people who think insects aren't pretty, particularly big ones like the pra...

Insects are so numerous and so varied that are an evoluti...

Humans might be one of the only animals to use tools as weapons, but Crack has a great list of animals born with weapons built right into their bodies -like the Giant Amazonian Centipede's ninja skills, which allow h...

Imagine a dragonfly the size of a seagull! You wou...  ...million years ago, as well as other B-movie sized insects . Why did they grow so large back then? A new theo...  ...? A new theory says it's because of oxygen, which insects absorb through their surface area. Wilco Verberk...  ...very sensitive to oxygen...

Every once in a while, a summer comes along in which you are desperate and will try anything to get rid of these flies. Luckily, that's not this summer for me. But you can imagine the situations that caused people to try...

Video link Sounds gross, I know, but it's actually a pretty interesting concept. To try to call attention to the bee plight in London, Capital Bee, a campaign that promotes community beekeeping, has created a series o...

"BZZZZzzzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzz" - narcoleptic bee - @sween ~Illustration by: Sam Spratt~...

Sure, it looks like a wayward ball of fluff. Maybe a even baby tribble. But that little guy in the pic above is the White Flannel Moth caterpillar, and the photographer who picked it up? Not happy. Those tiny little hair...