The way gardeners view insects has come a long way in the past few decades. The importance of pollinators and the natural pest control provided by beneficial insects is increasingly recognized as many ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Question: It seems that there are spider webs all over my yard as well as in the Santa Clarita area where my children live. What kind of spiders are they? I have read about brown spiders that can be ...

Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in insects. Scientists have pinpointed a ...

As always this time of year, the queen of the garden – our great big sewing machine spider – is the email queen, too. Most of us at some point or other have become “friends” with one of these big ...