VanidarEddy/iStock/GettyImages Insects that sting cause painful wounds. The stings hurt, swell and sometimes trigger allergic reactions. Some stinging insects nest in the ground. Walking over their nests can disturb the insects, causing multiple stings. Stinging insects that nest in the ground spend...
Venoms are liquid blends of biologically active substances, usually including toxins, that are injected into the body via a stinger, fang, hollow spine or other mechanical delivery system. A sting is a highly specialized device whose function is the delivery of venom. Bites are associated with ...
Insects — like the common blue damselfly seen here — have compound eyes that help them react rapidly to movement.(Image credit: mikroman6 via Getty Images) Theinsect family treegoes back more than 450 million years. In that time, bugs have evolved all kinds of awesome adaptations — from...
also have some sort of sting in their tails). Notice that in insects the mandibles bite tranversely (horizontally) whereas in mammals the jaws bite vertically. There are also little arm-like segmented appendages, called palps, of which there are typically two pairs. These palps are ...
Click IMAGES to Enlarge The photo on the right shows a parasitized aphid (brown sphere) and a live aphid (green sphere on the edge of the leaf). The white flecks on the other leaf are the mouthparts of aphids, all that’s left after the predators come through. Curiously, aphid predators...
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) One of the reasonscicadas will be a big deal this springis not only one large brood is surfacing, there will be two. Entomologists speculate that there could be billions of cicadas during the height of the "emergence". The two broods have been liv...
“Find the Imposters”, involved five images, three of them being wasps and two being wasp beetles. The pupils were asked to be detectives that can find the difference between the wasps and the beetles. This task introduced the topic of mimicry so that the pupils could see how some ...
One of nature’s classic battles is that of the lopsided struggle between a tarantula and its arch nemesis, the tarantula hawk (Pepsis, Hemipepsis). I say lopsided because the odds are usually stacked against the tarantula. The arachnid, paralyzed by the wasp’s sting, is destined to be ...
If you're getting started in the beekeeping business, or as a hobby, the first thing that you will want to know is how to spot the queen bee of the hive. And also, a technique called "Splitting the Hive" so you can begin an entirely new hive out of the one you already have. In...
First, NotAll ThingsThat Bite And Sting Are Insects Remember, all insects have three body parts and six legs. This means that not all invertebrates that bite are insects. This is true of spiders, which have two body parts and eight legs, as well as ticks, chiggers, scorpions, and leeches...