Forget honking Vs of geese or gathering herds of wildebeests. The biggest yearly mass movements of land animals may be the largely overlooked flights of aphids, moths, beetles, flies, spiders and ...

Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors and in our plumbing systems, even in our food and on our bodies. But while we often are ...

Since the dawn of the biological sciences, humankind has struggled to comprehend the relationships among the major groups of "jointed-legged" animals -- the arthropods. Now, a team of researchers has ...

Eric Keller, one of the site hosts, sits in front of his backyard trap, that includes a weather station providing detailed climatological data. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Insects and spiders often receive little attention from people, except when we're swatting them away. However, as arthropods - creatures distinguished by a hard exoskeleton and jointed legs - they ...

It was only a little more than a century ago that the first great strides were taken in recognizing the role of arthropods as 'vectors' capable of transmitting pathogens that cause disease in humans ...