"The best place for ticks is your armpits and groin because they are warm, moist, and a good source of blood," says pest ...

Another strike against bug zappers is that they electrocute bugs with such force that some parts, like the hair, legs, or wings, can be blown off the body and completely vaporized.

A newly discovered carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the “bone collector.” The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It creeps along ...

Pinned adult female (left) of the bone collector caterpillar and portable case (right) in which the larva resides decorated with body parts from ants, bark beetles, weevils, and flies.

Sporting a horn on your head two-thirds the length of your body might seem like a drag. For the rhinoceros beetle, though, massive head-weapons are no big deal. Turns out, pitchfork-shaped ...

These six bone collector caterpillar specimens adorned their cases with beetle wings, ant heads, fly wings and legs, spider legs and other insect body parts.

The species shown here all belong to the genus Onthophagus, a group of dung beetles. The colors in this picture, which are false, show which parts of the beetle body the horns grow from.

Macrocephalism is the tendency for beetle heads to widen compared with other body parts, whereas stenocephalism is the tendency for beetle forebodies (heads and thoraces) to be narrowly elongated.