If you love spiders, or even if you hate them, do we have a story for you. A massive spider colony has been discovered in a ...

It’s time for the monthly “what the heck is that?” site. Chironomids are, if the image on the opening page is any indication, a bizarre looking group of insects. Known as the midges, Chironomids are ...

Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square ...

Millions of tiny insects have been whirling ashore in northwest Kenner from the nearby LaBranche Wetlands for several days, plastering themselves to houses, clinging to window screens, and generally ...

It’s been a unique fall in Delaware – cool, warm, rainy and then, downright warm again: perfect conditions for one last Chironomid swarm of the season at the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

It’s gnat time of year. Walking around campus the past few weeks, students frequently have had to vigorously swat their arms or run to the nearest building for shelter from swarms of gnats. The ...

Every year around the end of May we see an emergence of little flies swarming the lakeshores of the Great Lakes and other smaller lakes around Ontario. People call them all sorts of names and have the ...

Cholera is a major killer and since the first pandemic in the early 19th century it has claimed millions of lives. According to Amit Lerner from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, the lethal ...