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Coconut Crab

Meet the largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab. They can live up to 60 years old, and grow to sizes of a new born human child!...

Bugs are saving the day, again. Mealworms are the larval stage of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a type of darkling beetle. Many...

I get called quite often being asked how people can repel spiders from their homes with little or no management from people, eg ‘I don’t...

Let’s talk about Animals and Plants, from a very young age we are told that plants can photosynthesis their food from the suns energy,...

After a female burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, eggs hatch, the beetle will go through a temporary period of infertility. When...

When the word vampirism is mentioned it congers up thoughts of Mosquitos, Bats, Mites or even The vampire finch of the Galapagos Islands,...

Desert Locusts have been described as a having a natural ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ – style behavioural change. Going from anti-social locusts to...

This beetle can skim across the surface of water so fast that it has been said to be akin to water skiing. Meet Galerucella nymphaeae, a...

This amazing animal is a Perectatosoma hystrix, a type of nocturnal stick insect native to Madagascar. While most stick insects avoid...

The worm in question is Leucochloridium, and it’s a parasitic worm that invades a snail’s eyestalks, where it pulsates to imitate a...

Purple snails, not really something you think of. Janthina umbilicata, or Purple storm snails as they are more commonly known. They are...

Male Australia peacock spider Maratus volans, courtship display. Picture by: Jurgen Otto. Sometimes you have to do more than just dance!...

So it has come to my attention that, get this, spiders can now conquer the waves by, thats right, Sailing! It is a whole other level of...

Black widow spiders are known mainly for, well, being black widows. Now research published in the journal Animal Behaviour shows that...

With every year more and more Invertebrates are being discovered and each of these animals then need naming. Until recently I have...