I have found a rare unknown speices that i never seen before that was laying on my wall outside the house at night it seem be very different speices and i want to find out what kind this is insect is. please take look this pictures and tell me wh...
Photo: Ryan Wick/Flickr There are very few situations where female royalty is encouraged to have multiple sexual partners. Okay, that probably never happens. But in the case of honeybees, it's key to their survival. At least that's what some rese...
I always thought that a fly's face looks like a baseball being pulled apart at the seams. In fact, I get so distractd by that split and those eyes and that mouth that I've failed to notice the fly's sideburns. Shame on me. ... ... So Steve named thi...
... Roaches are insects of the order Blattaria.This name derives from the Latin name for the insect, Blatta. ... There are about 4,000 species of cockroach, of which 30 species are associated with human habitations and about four species are well k...
What do you do if you're an ermine moth larvae and you and your horde have run out of trees to defoliate? If you're in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, you turn to automobiles. ... ... Photo source: NGM Blog Central ... ... ... This is the scene the D...
A moth that can be deadly to humans and strips the leaves off oak trees has been found breeding in Britain in what scientists are saying is the result of climate change.yea they do lo...
You're looking at a close up of a crane fly, though you may know it as a mosquito eater or a mosquito hawk. The fear center of my brain knows them as flying spiders. ... ... I'm here to dispel a myth, a myth that I have believed up until about five ...
I'm still consistently amazed at how often I'm directed to a new species of ugly, and this after almost four years of daily blogging. It's the trilobite beetle of Asia. ... ... Photo source: ExoBeetles.de
... Daniel Tate, an English schoolboy, was looking for grasshoppers at a wildlife event he attended with his great-grandfather last week. But the 11-year old boy and his companions at Seaton Marshes Local Nature Reserve had no idea what a huge s...
Don't we all at times feel constrained by the rigidity of our exoskeleton? Perhaps we feel a simple need to grow, or perhaps an urge to metamorphose into something entirely new. Either way, we must go through a painful, yet necessary ecdysis(wiki), t...
How does the jeweled beetle manage to look green despite not having any green pigment in their exoskeleton? Magic, that's how. Quick, someone go tell Traditional Chinese Medicine peddlers: they can cook up a new aphrodisiac. ... ... Actually, there'...
It's high time we had another dobsonfly post. Enjoy this video of a dude handling one. And getting squirted by it. Enjoy your lunch. ... source ... ...
Warmer winters have led to some interesting developments. Take the image below, for instance. An Alabama man decided not to eradicate the yellow jacket nest that had blossomed in his old '55 Chevy truck. He let it run wild, and this was the result. I...
Ants really are amazing creatures, as seen here when they form a life raft to float their colony to a new spot. I can't imagine what it would be like to go for a swim in the ol' watering hole, only to come up for air in the middle of this. I don't th...
Someone i know are afraid of this insect >_> really ... Grasshoppers have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and shortovipositors. Those species t...
Parasitic wasps are always an easy target as sci-fi parasites. After all, they were the main inspiration behind the film "Alien" - clearly they're 'sci-fi worthy'. They all do terrible, mean things to their hosts while they eat them alive from...
There are a lot of parasites that cause strange changes in their hosts. Parasites turn hosts into zombiesgorge on the flesh of the host from the inside out, even assist a host's suicide. But one of the most interesting and extreme changes caused by a...
Here's a story of zombies, parasitic mind control, and livers. In the end, I take away a cautionary tale from it, one that I'll pass on to my kids (the smaller ones at least): don't eat snail slime. ... ... Prepare for some erudition on the liver fl...
They look furry and can kill you :D if you touch them=| yep caterpillars can kill too or severely harm you lol ... ... ... ... It looks soooo fluffy O.O ... ... The caterpillars grow to about 1 inch long and are fur...
... It sounds like something out of science fiction: zombie fire ants. But it's all too real. ... Fire ants wander aimlessly away from the mound. ... Eventually their heads fall off, and they die. ... The strange part is that researchers at the <...
Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. ...
A group of Amazonian ants have evolved an extremely unusual social system: They are all female and reproduce via cloning. Though their sexual organs have virtually disappeared, they have also gained some extraordinary abilities. ... University...
This is called a Serra-Pau, which I believe is Portuguese for a variety of longhorn beetle. But don't quote me. Maybe a Brazilian etomologist can clear this up. ... ... I've never thought to look a longhorn beetle in the mouth, but now that I have, ...
It might not be readily apparent to you, but these are some of your favorite bugs. They've been featured in countless children's movies and books, they're on hallmark cards, and they're one of the many symbols of Spring. ... ... You're looking at la...
What's This? ... ... What's this? Perhaps close-ups of new fiber weaves or shots of this year's quilting contest runner-up? Is this what a teddy bear's hide looks...
This article from the mental floss blog. It's a tale of six fascinating ant species. ... ... First we have a Madagascar specimen called the Dracula ant (Adetomyrma sp.). But I don't think Dracula did anything quite like these ants. You see...
