Assassin bugs live up to their name. The insects expertly stalk and feed upon other small invertebrates, jabbing them with a venomous proboscis. Some species even hunt spiders and use a strange trick ...

Killing and eating of potential competitors has rarely been documented in the zoological literature, even though this type of interaction can affect population dynamics. Scientists now present notes ...

Spiders don’t make for easy prey. They are almost all venomous and almost all predatory. Many build webs whose silken lines ensure a sticky end for blundering insects. And those webs are, in a very ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Long before modern predators stalked Madagascar’s forests, ...

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Spiders are horrific creatures. Most of them are tiny and easy to deal with, yet they're so scary. Spiders are just as afraid of you as you are of them, maybe even more so. But it turns out that in ...

If the one thing that’s stopped you from having a fear of insects is the certainty that they’re not smart enough to plan your demise, it may be a good idea to stop reading. Everyone else, meet the ...

Silent assassin. A predatory Australian insect creeps up on spiders undetected by breaking their webs thread-by-thread and suppressing the resulting vibrations. Spiders are highly attuned to ...

Bugs: pests, destroyers of crops, bringers of disease, educational tools? Tony Gustin thinks so. Gustin and his Creepy Crawly Zoo travel around the state to schools, libraries, bookstores and fairs ...