Around 450 million years ago, an arthropod was buried alive. Now, scientists have uncovered its fossil preserved in a ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

This space, between snowpack and soil, shelters small insects, amphibians,and mammals from freezing temperatures. Arthropods as a whole are understudied, says Chris Ziadeh, graduate of the University ...

For example, most parasitoid wasps feed upon their host (another arthropod) during larval development, and then nectar-feed as adults. The more omnipresent form of omnivory in insects, which will ...

There are thousands of haiku about insects, spiders, and related arthropods. A new study reveals which kinds and which aspects of their biology are represented. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Insects like being inside just as much as we ... They found between 32 and 211 species of arthropods — an exoskeleton-covered creepy crawly — in every home they studied. Most were usual ...

The discovery of a unique case where the same insect species both pollinate a ... and again it’s very unusual that crickets or other tiny arthropods take over this role. Even more striking ...

Using stunning behavioural sequences, these three programmes will reveal the relationships, dependencies, challenges and dramas that arthropods have developed throughout the world. Insect Worlds ...

Using stunning behavioural sequences, these three programmes will reveal the relationships, dependencies, challenges and dramas that arthropods have developed throughout the world. Insect Worlds ...

Most people lump all arthropods, or animals with an exoskeleton, together as "bugs". But there are major differences between types of arthropods. Insects are the most diverse class of animals, but a ...

The capability of body deformation further enhances the reachability of these small robots in complex cluttered terrains similar to those of insects and soft arthropods. Motivated by this concept, we ...