Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

A species of spider found only in Bermuda has been photographed for the first time. Buglife, a UK-based nature conservation ...

They erect multiple “trapdoor” entrances to their burrows and cover them with a silk-weave in an effort to ambush small insect prey. Trapdoor spiders are large by spider standards, measuring ...

"A spider uses its fangs to pierce the skin of insects and inject toxins, we replaced the fangs of spider with Metarhizium," Prof St Leger explained. Laboratory tests showed the genetically ...