Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That's why, paleobiologist George ...

house zebra jumping spiders, and ant-mimicking jumping spiders. Insects and spiders are essential to our ecosystem. They play diverse roles, from pollination by bees and butterflies to natural ...

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Ripan was photographing a red weaver ant colony when he spotted this slightly ...

It was actually an ant-mimicking crab spider, just five millimetres long. Before these spiders attack, observes Ripan, they ‘tend to hide under leaves’. This tiny spider can outwit weaver ant colonies ...

Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates. These are some of our favorite mating ...

A study investigated the identity of the fungus found on a spider during the filming of the BBC Winterwatch series in ...

The findings lead researchers to believe that the fungus infected the spiders, similar to the way O. unilateralis infected the ants in Brazil. The fungus likely propelled the spiders to leave their ...

How crickets co-exist with hostile ant hosts Date: January 15, 2025 Source: Nagoya University Summary: Researchers have identified the behavioral strategies that parasitic cricket species employ ...

It’s not just humans who have trouble making amends—Earth’s 20 quadrillion ants aren’t quick to forgive, either. Ants primarily rely on their fine-tuned olfactory sense to differentiate ...

According to the authors, the spiders appeared to have left their webs or lairs and migrated to die when exposed to the fungus. This behavior is similar to what is seen in ants who are infected by ...