The newly identified specimen was part of a collection of insect fossils from a fossil-rich stone quarry known as the Crato Formation, and housed at the University of São Paulo’s Zoology Museum.

What Are Insect Stings and Spider Bites? A sting happens when an insect injects venom into your skin. The venom travels through the bug’s stinger. If you get stung, you’ll feel pain.

Cellulitis is a deep type of skin infection that can spread. It typically occurs after a cut or break in the skin, which allows bacteria to get inside. Bug bites and stings are a potential cause ...

Insects, vital for our ecosystem, face a steep decline. A study by Binghamton University reveals agricultural intensification and climate change as key factors. Land use and insecticides ...

Between 17% and 42% of insect behavioral experiment results were not reproducible across laboratories, indicating that reproducibility issues extend to insect studies despite large sample sizes.

The Maricopa harvester ant, native to Arizona and the southwest U.S., holds the world record for most toxic insect venom. Although its venom is potent, the ant is relatively docile and stings are ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found an incredible strategy. A species of caterpillar that scientists are ...

The 11 th Annual Riverside Insect Fair returns to downtown Riverside on Saturday, April 26, with Hercules Beetles, fuzzy Tarantulas and pencil-thin Walking Sticks. Join us at the Main Library on ...

If this type of classic repellent is all you can find (or if you prefer it), the best version we’ve found is Cutter Backwoods Dry Insect Repellent. Its 25% DEET formula protects against ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this ...

The fossil is a member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily from the Cretaceous period. Those insects were armed with scythe-like jaws that researchers suspect the ant deployed to pin down or ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it's not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths ...