Sitting on the deck on a summer afternoon, talking with friends. Nice in the shade. Pugnacious hummingbirds buzz past to make sure we know where we belong. A mosquito or two. Or three. One of my eyes ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Spiders are perhaps the most feared invertebrates on the planet. Their eight long legs seem to move almost as if each of them has a mind of their own rather than belonging to one ...

They may creep some of us out (and you can bet that us includes yours truly), but we’ve all got our own little spot in the world, right? Anyway, I recently discovered that there may be a difference ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

A very astute child watched a tarantula hawk wasp attack a tarantula—and narrated the science behind the encounter beautifully for his family, who was watching it unfold live with him. The wasp, which ...

Spiders, wasps and zombies perhaps all feature prominently in people’s bad dreams, but a combo of all three? That’s some next-level nightmare fuel—and it actually comes straight out of the creepy-cool ...