These colorful, feathery stalks are the antennae of a mole crab, also known as a sand flea. You may have seen these little critters burrowing into the sand at the beach as the waves wash over the ...

With its shiny, black and fiery body and orange-tipped antennae, the American burying beetle is a vibrant beauty of the bug world. The insect's occupation ... stripping it of fur or feathers, rolling ...

This is a portion of a single antenna from a geometer moth (the species of moth whose caterpillar stage is the inchworm). This type of feathery antenna is called a plumouse (from the Latin word pluma, ...