An eastern lubber grasshopper, or Romalea guttata sits on a leaf at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Photos by Jenny Marder. And now, an end-of-the-week pause to celebrate ...

Scientists have isolated the genetic sequences for important neurotoxins in the scorpion venom and developed methods to produce and manipulate these toxins to restrict their toxicity to certain ...

Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield has some new residents on view: several different types of insects from around the world including some with hundreds of legs, deadly venom, and even a ...

Q: Over the past four years or so, I have found baby scorpions in my house. One year, there were three and those were the most I’d seen in one year. They all have their length in common, less than an ...