A designer called Lorenzo Maggiore has developed a pump-action "insect eradication" device called Bug-a-Salt that fires salt at unsuspecting creepy-crawlies. The device has a range of between 0.9 and ...

Spiders normally wield webs to ensnare insects and other victims. Now scientists find that assassin bugs turn the tables on these web-spinning arachnids by mimicking prey. Result: Spiders put their ...

Big spiders may frighten haunted house visitors this week, but spiders themselves would do well to fear assassin bugs. A new study has just revealed the bugs' devious and deadly tactics. Like ...

No one is more enthusiastic about a cicada, their physical feats or insects as a whole, than Nicole Parish. And that's in ...

A species of assassin bug has been found which creeps onto spiders' webs and pretends to be prey, then devours the spider when it comes to investigate. Most predators conceal themselves in order to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A tarantula at a Salt Lake City apartment complex spooked residents after crawling through a window on Monday. It wasn't a coincidence that thisarachnid made an appearance just ...

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor's house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave cricket ...

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 ...