You can also remove the mouthparts with tweezers. After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with soap and water, rubbing alcohol, or hand sanitizer.

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

More ticks have been found active in Ohio. Here's are the hot spots and common species in Ohio, how to prevent bites, and what to do if you're bitten.

Beetles — Coleoptera — are typically cylindrical and have mouthparts that chew. The colony had gone to town with those mouthparts to reduce a once-lustrous pink flamingo to a humble bone bundle.

Orkin explains that, unlike cicadas, locusts do have chewing mouthparts that allow them to consume "almost all or any part of a plant that is above ground.