Insects & Invertebrates
Why do snails eat paper?
It might not be to our taste but snails seem to like it...
Can spiders really be beautiful? Oh yes... meet the 5 prettiest spiders on the planet, from metallic-blue tarantulas to dancing peacock spiders
We take a look at the most colourful members of the spider family
What's the strongest material produced by animals?
Animals can produce incredibly strong substances - so who makes the toughest?
"He wrenches off one of the enormous organs with a loop of silk, a twist of the body and a sharp tug." The tiny creature that rips off his own gigantic sex organ
These male spiders have a tough life
10 deadliest insects on the planet: Discover the world's most dangerous insects to humans, including one that's a major ingredient in 'love potions'
Small but deadly! From disease spreaders to stingers to voracious swarms, read all about the world’s most deadly and dangerous insects.
How a giant, furry tarantula helped me overcome depression and anxiety —and why you should start loving these amazing arachnids too
How the unlikely pastime of tarantula-watching helped one woman overcome her anxiety
Stripy animals with big eyes found on remote oil rig in North Sea. What they were carrying stuns researchers
Researchers found hundreds of tiny marmalade hoverflies on the remote rig, and most of them were carrying pollen – here's why that's important.
There's a mysterious animal in the tropical forests of Panama that waves at predators – in a very scary way
The creature's strange leg-waving display has baffled scientists for years. Now they know why it does it...
It’s as loud as an aeroplane but smaller than your thumb – so just how is this winged creature SO noisy?
Despite their small size, cicadas sure are noisy. So how do they produce such big sounds?
What is the fastest flying insect? Meet the speed machines that can fly at 145km/h
How fast are the fastest flying insects? We take a look
This bizarre ocean creature has 8 legs, looks like an alien and sucks up and spits out its prey after taking a tasty bite
Sea spiders are strange creatures, and the gangly lancer sea spider is one of the strangest of all
It might only be 15cm long, but it can run at 16kph and its deadly jaws are one-third the length of its body and strong enough to shear through bone
Camel spiders may look intimidating, but they don’t actually eat camels.
It might look like a beautiful flower but it's actually a deadly predator... Meet one very unlikely-looking, cold-hearted mass killer
For pollen-seekinginsects this is one deadly predator
When spider scientists went into a Taiwanese forest at night, they discovered a deadly trap
The researchers observed nocturnal spiders exploiting the natural light of fireflies to draw unsuspecting prey into their webs.
12 weirdest insects in the world - including a moth that resembles a poodle and a fly with eyes on stalks
The insect world is definitely a weird one - and there are some that are even weirder than the others. Discover some of the world's strangest and bizarrest insects
Why do dragonflies and damselflies have such big eyes?
Entomologist Richard Jones discusses the large eyes of these predatory insects.
It has 8 legs, isn't a spider and has sharp pincer claws on the front of their head – much like a scorpion – which they hunt and kill with
Although they look like spiders, harvestmen are more closely related to scorpions says Richard Jones
7 prettiest - and possibly weirdest - insects in the world that you might not know
There some amazingly beautiful, yet little known, insects on our planet. Stuart Blackman picks a few of his favourites
6 terrifying, spine-chilling worms that'll give you nightmares, from one that slices its prey in half to an eye worm that affects humans...
Prepare for a scare as we take a look at some of the most terrifying worms on the planet.
10 rarest shells on the planet, from a gigantic deep-sea snail the size of a shoe box to a bizarre comb-shaped shell with delicate prongs
We take a closer look at the world of ultra-rare shells – where the molluscs that create them live and why they're so hard to find
Four new tarantulas with huge genitals have just been discovered. Apparently males use them to fend off cannibalistic females
The newly described species of spider live on the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
"It's astonishing": animal in India sings when sun is precisely 3.8° below horizon every dawn, say scientists
Researchers reveal that cicadas time their early morning chorus to a precise light threshold, offering new insights into collective animal behaviour.
Silent assassins and tiny terrors: Meet the world's deadliest flies
They may be small, but some flies are far from harmless. Spreading deadly parasites and causing devastating diseases, meet the world’s most dangerous winged insects
Gigantic insect as long as a cat found in Australia. It may be the country's heaviest ever, say experts
Measuring 40cm in length, the giant stick insect is new to science.
