It’s happened to most of us. You lift up a rock in your garden or an old carpet in your basement and…YIKES! Centipede. A tiny ...

Centipedes have been known to bite, though it is extremely rare; a bite is supposedly reminiscent of a wasp sting. It can be startling to encounter a many-legged creature scurrying around your house, ...

Whichever multi-legged creature you find crawling around your home, here’s what to know about why it’s there. After reading this, you may even decide not to kick them out of your house if you ...

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Centipedes, those many-legged creatures that startle us in our homes and gardens, have been genetically sequenced for the first time. In a new study in the journal PLOS Biology, an international team ...

Centipedes, those many-legged creatures that startle us in our homes and gardens, have been genetically sequenced for the first time. An international team of over 100 scientists today reveals how ...

(WHTM) — When you see a bug inside your home, most people either want to kill it or throw it outside. But, did you know there is one insect that you probably should keep inside your home that can ...

Have you ever considered the life of a paleoentomologist? Studying fossil insects is a great gig, but it does present its share of difficulties. Foremost among those difficulties: finding ancient ...

A centipede that's more than 1 foot long is on display at a Big Island resident's home. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Sunday that retired taxidermist Clayton Cambra spotted the 14.5-inch insect ...

Most millipedes defend themselves by curling into a ball, but one found in a Virginia national park secretes toxic cyanide compounds to ward off predators NPS Photos/Marie Pinto More stories about ...