You can determine the outside temperature by cricket chirps.  For Fahrenheit, count the number of times a cricket chirps in precisely 15 se...

Males of some praying mantis species cannot copulate while its head is attached.   The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head ...

From the archives:  Two bees ran into each other. The first bee asked the other how things were going. "Really bad," said t...

Crickets chirp with their wings and hear from their knees. ( tympanic membrane )

The the normal life expectancy of the common housefly is about 17 days. (in the wild, although flies in captivity have been kept alive for ...

Earlier this morning I was trying to finish up a documentary I had started last night;  it was a YouTube video I had saved and uploaded to ...

Ants have the largest brain of any insect.  Some ant species have 14-15% of their mass in their brains. Biologists estimate that there ar...

KU Honey Bee Cam One out of three bites of food, or one-third of our diet, is linked to the direct work of the honey bee, which make...

The Wolf spider carries its young on its back.

A caterpillar has more muscles than you do. (assuming that you're a human reading this) A caterpillar has as many as 4,000 muscles in i...

Just two flies can produce 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 offspring in 4 months.