Category: Insects

If you thought silkworms are worms, let me correct you. They are not worms as their name suggests; instead, they are the larva of the insect silkworm moth. Silkworms are one among the small group...

Infamous for its painful sting reassembling the excruciating pain from a bullet wound is the bullet ants that patrol the Amazon forests. They are the most dangerous among the ant family when it comes...

One can always get confused between moths and butterflies. Both are quite similar in appearance and have similar feeding habits. Many biologists believe that the butterflies have evolved from moths....

Dragonflies are strange insects and become even more strange the more you learn about them Adult dragonflies eat small flying insects such as mosquitoes, but in the early stages, they spend their...

We all know about those pesky bugs that come out at night and bite us to create itchy bumps on our skin. They are also known as mosquitoes. It seems like these bugs are constantly active and are...

We have all seen them flying around our backyards during the spring and summertime. Most of us have had them fly in and land on our fishing poles while out on the lake or fishing in a river and...