It's a bit tongue in cheek because arthropods don't actually have bones," Rubinoff told the Reuters news agency. A host of caterpillars native to Hawaii use silk glands to spin protective cases ...

As the caterpillars skulk about the webs, they scavenge dead and dying insects and other arthropods ensnared in the sticky silk. According to David Wagner, an entomologist at the University of ...

Dung arthropod communities contribute to two important ecosystem services for ranchers: dung degradation and pest control. Results: In total, 51,283 arthropod specimens were collected from 596 dung ...

Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology and Control of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China ...

Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of arthropod body ...

The virus penetrates the mosquito's midgut during digestion and reproduces in its blood, ultimately colonizing the mosquito's salivary glands. When the mosquito injects its saliva into her next ...

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Professor Sarah Gabbott from the University of Leicester School of ...

The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) is an expert advisory body that assists PHAC with travel health-related advice for travellers and health care professionals. The ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...