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A contender for Britain's largest insect could be the largest UK beetle, the stag beetle ( Lucanus cervus, measuring in at 35 ...

A discovery by FIU researchers could help forensic investigators close the gap on estimating time of death.Often, death investigations rely on maggots ...

Here's everything you need to know about Portuguese man o' wars and what you need to do if you ever get stung.

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Grasshoppers are a major pest of both cultivated crops and rangeland grasses. Traditionally, drier areas like southern ...

Discover how crickets' inability to distinguish microplastics from food could affect how microplastics are broken down in the ...