According to the World Health Organization, vector-borne diseases cause more than 700,000 deaths annually. Researchers sound ...

Insect predators found in the United States could help keep spotted lanternfly populations in check while potentially ...

Liesch is the sole worker at the lab and takes on a plethora of responsibilities regarding the insects people bring in. His main task is identifying arthropods and educating people on entomology, or ...

You may know that spiders, mites, and ticks have eight legs, and therefore are not insects. Sometimes we lump all these creepy crawlies under the term “arthropods,” which includes invertebrate (no ...

The species, native to tropical rainforests of southeast Asia, bears a “striking resemblance to orchid flowers,” Cincinnati Zoo staff said.

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

Research on the insectome in and around broiler breeder pullet farms has identified new potential vectors of Histomonas meleagridis, the protozoa that ...

Other researchers had previously attempted to use gene expression assays to align the leg segments of the four major arthropod groups (arachnids, crustaceans, insects, and millipedes and centipedes) ...

Arthropods are a group of creatures with jointed ... offers no explanation for the phenomenon of dwindling spiders and insect predators or the proliferation of grasshoppers in areas where ...

A long-term study carried out in the Spiti valley of the Himalayas shows that this replacement can drastically influence the numbers of ground-dwelling arthropods like spiders, as well as that of ...