Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Jumping spider mothers provide milk to their spiderlings far into development, according to a new study that might turn your understanding of invertebrate parenting on its head. Animals offer all ...

We recently saw that certain species of spider can walk on water, but now it seems that there's yet another way arachnophobes can be surprised by the object of their nightmares: from above. Because ...

Philipe de Liz Pereira, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 You wouldn’t know it, being thousands of times their size and easily able to squish them under foot, but harvestmen, a.k.a. daddy longlegs, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abundance and species diversity of ground-living invertebrates, spiders, harvestmen, slugs, beetles and ants, were examined by pitfall ...

As the demand for butterflies, spiders, ants and other terrestrial invertebrates grows worldwide, researchers in a recent study say better policy and regulation coverage can help ensure sustainability ...

Spider lovers and other invertebrate enthusiasts gathered in a large circle around the square patch of Astroturf where the Madagascar hissing cockroaches were set to race at the 10th Annual American ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Forget meals of flies and gnats; those are for amateurs. One jumping spider in India is feasting ...

When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my biology-professor dad brought me a present home from work: a jar of sticks. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. When some of them started moving he ...