The United States has a variety of venomous wildlife, including hornets, rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, Gila monsters, ...

Justine Paradis: Kyle Lombard is a forest entomologist with the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands. In the summer of ...

In Malaga, the pine processionary plague, a natural phenomenon resulting from abnormally warmer weather, has been causing a ...

A fascinating new book is an eye-opening journey into the many ways ants, apes, bees, bears, and other animals know how to ...

From voracious vermin to destructive insects, pest issues are pretty much inevitable in any garden. Left unchecked, these ...

The definite tussock moth is very rare," The Museum writes. They have urticating hairs, known as stinging hairs. While they aren't poisonous or attached to venom glands, their hair can irritate ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially ...

Dr Walker said there were up to 10,000 caterpillar species in Australia and many had "toxic defences". "We don't know a lot about which of those can cause anaphylaxis and which can't," he said.

They’re so old that they’re sometimes referred to as “living fossils.” Velvet worms look like caterpillars but have short stumpy legs they use to meander around rotting leaves in cool, shady areas of ...