Insects & Invertebrates

The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata). © Gabriel Mendes/Getty

Five blood-sucking creatures

Willoughby's leaf cutter bee and an Andrena bee species. © Lee Frost

Bug Photography Awards 2020

Common Sydney octopus showing a tentacle and suckers. © cbimages/Alamy

Insects & Invertebrates

Do octopuses ever live together?

California two-spot octopus. © Phil Garner/Alamy

Insects & Invertebrates

Why do female octopuses die after reproducing?

Painted lady butterfly stamp. © Royal Mail

New postal stamps to celebrate pollinators

Only a few of the ostracods in the amber piece could be studied using light microscopy, like this individual of the new species Myanmarcypris hui. Its antennae extend from the bivalved shell. Most other specimens lie too deep in the amber or the view is obstructed by debris particles. © He Wang and Xiangdong Zhao

100 million year old giant sperm is world’s oldest

Western lowland gorilla dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years, in Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. © Fiona Rogers/Getty

Guide to tautonyms, triple tautonyms, and binomial nomenclature

Thistle-down velvet ant. © Joseph S. Wilson

Remarkable similarity between fluffy ant and fruit is not due to mimicry

Pelophylax nigromaculatus frog. © Shinji Sugiura

Aquatic beetle survives being swallowed alive by frogs

Dorit Bar-Zakay

How many British insects can you identify?

Native oyster cluster. © David Smyth

Insects & Invertebrates

European native oyster guide: where it’s found, and why it’s an ecosystem engineer

Red underwing moth. © Peter Maton

Moth Night: what and when it is, how to take part, and which species to target

Sinistral Jeremyl on top of a dextral snail. © Angus Davison/University of Nottingham

How Jeremy the ‘shellebrity’ snail found fame and advanced scientific understanding

Bloody Henry starfish on golden star tunicate and sea sponge, Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, UK. © Paul Kay/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Do starfish have arms or legs?

Turritopsis dohrnii. © Yiming Chen/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Is it really true that some animals live forever?