Everything's bigger in Texas, including nocturnal acid-spraying, scorpion-like creatures, apparently. A 3-inch-long vinegaroon was recently photographed crawling through a campground at Big Bend ...

The scorpions were left near a playground inside of a Red Vines licorice container. A worried mother picked them up around noon and brought them to the fire district. No one has claimed them. "My ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The long list of stolen items sounds like an arachnophobe’s nightmare. Rhinocerous roaches. Six-eyed sand spiders. Red spot assassin bugs. Zebra tarantulas. Desert hairy scorpions.

People are eating insects for fun, and we want to know why anyone would ever voluntarily put a bug in their mouth. We're not talking about eating them for the wow factor like kids do with scorpion ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two scorpions do a courtship dance in the moonlight. A female praying mantis bites off a male's head and feasts on him while his rear end impregnates her. An assassin bug glues its ...

A single seared shrimp sat atop a scoop of mashed avocado with a healthy pile of salty black specks overflowing onto the plate beside it. If I didn’t already know what I had gotten myself into, I ...

Hershey Gardens will be alive with all kinds of exotic bugs at this year’s Bug-O-Rama. The fifth annual Bug-O-Rama insect exhibition will be held on Sunday, September 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the ...

In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, insects have long been an integral part of the human diet, and nowadays scorpions can be ordered on skewers, while ants fill spring rolls and silkworms star in ...

<b>WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2006</b> - The irony stung worse than the scorpion. A soldier dedicated to studying dangerous wildlife recently got attacked by one of the aggressive fat-tailed scorpions he ...

We had some ants in our pants, so we took a trip to Athens and got some on our plates. AJC food editor Ligaya Figueras tried crickets, ants, scorpions and other bugs as part of The Buzz: An Evening of ...