Throughout India animals can be seen living on the streets among people. They are portrayed in decorative art, on temples…

In the United States there are eleven native species of brown recluse spiders and two non-native species. Worldwide, there are…

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Ant Mating Season and Making an Ant Queen In spring and fall, some of the reproductive caste (winged male ants…

RatsMania! Rats in Literature Rats are depicted in fiction in both a negative and positive light. There are an endless…

Ants usually build their nest underground. Some ants build their nest beneath rocks or decaying wood.  In the home, ants…

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Questions About Ant Communication Ever wonder how ants figure out where the cookie jar is, after you hid it behind…

Ant Pheromones Identified First identified in 1971, scent trails of ants (pheromone trails) have been the subject of many entomological…

How Important are Ants in the Environment? Ants can be beneficial to the environment in a variety of ways.  Ant…

The anatomies of acarines, as shown in Figure 2, are fairly similar. The capitulum is the head and the idiosoma…

There are two mosquitoes that are known to carry the Zika virus, Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) and the Asian…

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Insects and Wildflowers of California Chaparral – California’s Wildland-Urban Interface by Donna M. Walker Growing up in San Diego’s South…

California's Crazy Ant Invasion by Donna M. Walker There’s a new invasive species of ants making their way to California…

Invasive Asian Lady Beetles "Ladybug, Ladybug, fly away . . ." Invasive or Invited? The Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle looks…

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The Island of Sardinia Sardinia, Italy, is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily. The island terrain resembles a…