Eric LoPresti, an assistant professor of ecology at the University of South Carolina, used the words “fuzzy” and “adorable” ...

4.This person who found a textile cone snail and casually grabbed it with their bare hands. Textile cone snails are some of ...

The pain from the southern flannel moth caterpillar sting has been described in several different, but all excruciating ways—a white-hot or knife-like sensation, a pain you can feel in your ...

You might conclude that this peacock moth caterpillar is having a bad hair day. But that array of green and black spikes has a purpose – to protect the creature from predators, by packing a mean sting ...

As the weather warms up in South Texas, spring foliage brings out an abundance of tussock moth caterpillars that carry irritating, or even venomous, hairs that sting and can leave a rash on skin.

There’s the Atlas moth, of course, but... oh damn, what’s that in the distance? Is it a small bird? A delightfully fluffy little alien? Nope – it’s the giant wood moth (Endoxyla cinereus ...

Known scientifically as Phereoeca uterella, this moth species is greyish, flat and roughly half an inch long.

Ever wanted to know what a bullet ant sting feels like, without putting yourself through the pain? Wondering what’s worse, the sting of a fire ant or warrior wasp? You’ve come to the right place.