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 ...
Overall, the educational resource has been shown to be beneficial and useful in school and museum educational settings in the two trials. It has always been my hope to create an educational resource that can be used by anyone to educate the public about Coleopterans, and I hope that this re...
A spider was is any of about 5,000 species of large, parasitoid wasps that paralyze spiders to feed their larval young. They are distributed throughout most of the world.
A honey ant is any of several different species of ant that have developed a unique way of storing the honeydew, a by-product of digestion that is gathered mainly from the secretions of aphids and scale insects. Specialized workers, known as repletes, st
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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...