Bacterial community composition in blood-sucking arthropods can shift dramatically across time and space. We used 16S rRNA gene amplification and pyrosequencing to investigate the relative impact of ...

It's well-known that the world's rain forests contain an enormous variety of arthropods, the group of animals that includes insects and spiders. But a new study shows that this variety is simply ...

It's well-known that the world's rainforests contain an enormous variety of arthropods, the group of animals that includes insects and spiders. But a new study shows that this variety is simply ...

Chris Marshall started collecting insects as a little kid, and he still finds them endlessly fascinating. “I’ve always been a bug person,” he confessed. And now, as the curator and collection manager ...

Do you know what the largest and most diverse group within the animal kingdom is? Arthropods, known for their segmented body parts, out number all the rest! This group includes insects, arachnids, ...

Every now and then, you probably see a multi-legged little creature around your home. Ants find their way to food that's left out, crickets occasionally appear in basements, and spiders spin cobwebs ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the landscape, a colossal millipede relative the length of a family car crawled through what ...

A new fossil find reveals that in an ancient arthropod species, no animal was an island. The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals ...

A clue to how arthropods — the group of more than a million invertebrate species that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans — evolved their distinctive jointed legs has been discovered in ...

Science has confirmed what anyone who’s heard a scratching nose in their ear already knew: We’re never alone. You might think you’re spending a nice, quiet evening by yourself on the couch at your ...

A clue to how arthropods--the group of more than a million invertebrate species that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans--evolved their distinctive jointed legs has been discovered in ...