A few dark specks on a sheet, windowsill, or skirting board can make an ordinary room feel suddenly suspect. The reaction is usually immediate and deeply familiar. Disgust arrives first, closely ...

Assassin bugs live up to their name. The insects expertly stalk and feed upon other small invertebrates, jabbing them with a venomous proboscis. Some species even hunt spiders and use a strange trick ...

It’s hard to relax at home when you're seeing bugs and wonder if there are more lurking around the corner. That’s the reality for many people, as bugs are in the majority of homes. That’s why it’s ...

Spiders normally wield webs to ensnare insects and other victims. Now scientists find that assassin bugs turn the tables on these web-spinning arachnids by mimicking prey. Result: Spiders put their ...

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor's house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave cricket ...

Big spiders may frighten haunted house visitors this week, but spiders themselves would do well to fear assassin bugs. A new study has just revealed the bugs' devious and deadly tactics. Like ...

Spiders weave different styles of webs for different hunting tactics. Identifying the web helps identify if its maker is a ...

S E L I N S  G R O V E, Pa., April 16 -- Some insects are able to avoid predatoryspiders by picking up on chemical cues left in spider silk. Now aresearcher hopes to turn the bugs' evolutionary ...