Whether you call them roly polys, pill bugs, wood lice, or armadillidiidae we think they are just awesome. My kids spend hours digging in the garden looking for roly polys. These little guys have piqued my kids' inte...

The following is an article from the book from Unc...  ...very second. EATIN' YOU: FleasBIO: Fleas are tiny insects that just can't live without blood. They eat more...  ...EATIN' YOU: Ticks BIO: Ticks are arachnids-not insects -and are related to spiders. There are no ticks th...

This radar image was obtained by the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in La Crosse. The area depicted is where the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa meet. A mayfly hatch along the Mississippi Riv...

A rare species of bee uses flower petals to make a tiny nest for each egg. Two teams of researchers found nests of the Osmia (Ozbekosima) avoseta bee in Iran and watched them meticulously build the nests and line them fo...

Every culture has some traditional dishes that make those from elsewhere cringe. The author of this post heard from quite a few people in India that pizza is clearly disgusting! Here are some other offbeat delicacies fro...

(vimeo link) There's a lot going on in a small garden pond! Mirko Faienza blends beautiful macrophotography and music in My Father's Garden. -via Metafilter...

Over 700 paired species of fig trees and wasps...  ...species have a lower incidence of non-pollinating insects

You may well be thinking 'The mystery of what?' bu...  ...ght time it looks simply amazing, especially with insects inside it.Some plants produce explosive resin. T...

[YouTube - Link] Ants are such amazing creatures! Able to work together to create vast underground empires and take down almost any animal of any size...even humans! So, what happens when a creature such as the crab...

Image: Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Since 1967, scie...  ...1986 Chernobyl disaster, documenting the mutated insects resulting from radioactive contamination. In an...