It’s Halloween every day for the bone collector caterpillar. The moth larva decorates its drag-along dwelling with scavenged body parts from dead insects. This ghastly getup may allow the creatures to ...

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the long-legged centipedes or impaling air-snatchers that usually star in the islands ...

Officials are sounding the alarm on an emerging disease spreading throughout the United States that is caused by the kissing bug, an insect known for biting people near the lips. The insect, native to ...

The yellow-legged hornet, if not controlled, could endanger not only pollination in our yards, but also crops in the U.S., ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Abigail Martens grew up on a corn and soybean farm her parents still run at Missouri Valley, Iowa, about 20 miles north of Omaha, Neb. As a kid, she’d bring home snakes, bullfrogs, ...

Out here in the rural parts of Newton County, the cool temperatures of September nights make for comfortable windows-open ...

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it ...