Insects, Spiders, and Other Bugs

They may be tiny, but insects, spiders, and other anthropods make up the largest animal species on the planet. Discover profiles of all kinds of creepy crawlies and find tips for attracting beneficial insects and controlling pests.

  • A banded woollybear caterpillar under a leaf
    How to Keep Fall Caterpillars Alive Until Spring
  • Grasshopper on leaf.
    The 5 Kinds of Bugs That Can Jump
  • Fruit Fly Vinegar Trap
    10 Tips for Getting Rid of Fruit Flies
  • Locust borer on firewood
    Keep Bugs out of Your Firewood and Your Home
  • Cotton stainer bug
    10 Red and Black Bugs You Can Find in Your Garden
  • Termite soldiers
    10 Fascinating Facts About Termites
  • Close up view of a scorpion sitting on the dirt in profile.
    10 Fascinating Facts About Scorpions
  • Monarch caterpillar.
    Why Are Monarch Caterpillars Turning Black?
  • Praying mantis
    10 Fascinating Praying Mantis Facts
  • Florida lovebugs intermingle in flowering vegetation
    What Are Florida Lovebugs?
  • Fruit Fly
    Where Do Fruit Flies Come From?
  • Mosquito close-up.
    16 Fascinating Facts About Mosquitoes
  • The rusty tussock moth caterpillar
    Tussock Moth Caterpillars
  • Bed bug feeding
    What Attracts Bedbugs to Human Environments?
  • Green stick insect on branch.
    10 Fascinating Stick Insect Facts
  • A praying mantis
    Is Killing a Praying Mantis Illegal?
  • Fruit Fly Vinegar Trap
    How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies
  • Dead Fly on Window Sill
    How to Use a Bug Bomb Safely
  • Cricket
    Why Do Crickets Stop Chirping When Approached?
  • Ants on an orange
    How to Make and Use Homemade Ant Killer
  • Dragonfly face close-up.
    5 Myths About Dragonflies
  • Close-up photo of termite soldier.
    What Do Termites Look Like?
  • Close-Up Of Yellow Insects On Green Leaf
    10 Fascinating Facts About Aphids
  • Cockroach.
    10 Fascinating Facts About Cockroaches
  • Bedbug
    How to Avoid Bed Bugs in Hotels
  • Girl holding a caterpillar.
    13 Stinging Caterpillars
  • Large milkweed bugs.
    7 Insects Commonly Found on Milkweed
  • Cat Flea
    10 Fascinating Facts About Fleas
  • An fossilized insect in amber
    Types of Insect Fossils
  • Harvestman or daddy longlegs.
    Daddy Longlegs: Order Opiliones
  • Camel cricket
    Camel Crickets and Cave Crickets, Family Rhaphidophoridae
  • Overhead light hanging on factory truss
    Build Your Own Mercury Vapor Light Setup
  • Colorful grasshopper.
    10 Fascinating Facts About Grasshoppers
  • The World's Smallest Insects
  • Praying mantis.
    Superorder Dictyoptera, Roaches and Mantids
  • Close-Up of Housefly on Glass Window
    10 Astonishing Facts About House Flies
  • Leaf preparation for caterpillar habitat
    How to Feed and Care for a Caterpillar
  • Most grasshoppers belong to the family Acrididae.
    Grasshoppers: The Family Acrididae
  • Bed bug on human skin close up.
    Why Is Getting Rid of Bed Bugs so Hard?
  • Daddy Longlegs (Opiliones)
    Is the Daddy Longlegs Dangerous to Humans?
  • Daddy longlegs
    Daddy Longlegs: Arachnids, but Not Spiders
  • Moths flying in beam of light, black background
    Using a Black Light to Collect Insects at Night
  • Green stink bug
    Stink Bugs of Family Pentatomidae
  • House fly feeding on bread
    How to Control Flies in Your Home and Yard
  • African giant millipede
    A Guide to Caring for Pet Millipedes
  • Common house spider on the floor in a home
    We Swallow Spiders in Our Sleep: Myth or Fact?
  • Close-Up Of Mosquito On Leg
    What Is the Deadliest Insect on Earth?
  • Blacklegged ham beetle.
    Beetles That Eat Bodies
  • House cricket.
    10 Fascinating Facts About Crickets
  • Katydid, Canada
    How to Use Crickets to Calculate Temperature
  • Egg case (ootheca) of a Chinese mantis on a plant stem
    Amazing Praying Mantis Egg Case
  • A man holding alfalfa weevil larvae
    How Are Accumulated Degree Days (ADD) Calculated?
  • Giant water bug with eggs on its back.
    Giant Water Bugs, Family Belostomatidae
  • Flea in dog fur
    The Life Cycle of Fleas
  • Close up of insects on flower blossoms.
    Early History of Forensic Entomology, 1300-1900
  • Earwig, Dermaptera, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Canada
    What Is Thigmotaxis?
  • Mass of aphids.
    Learn How Aphids Can Quickly Overrun Your Garden
  • Water scorpion (family Nepidae), climbs out of a forest river, Belize
    Water Scorpions, Family Nepidae
  • Woman resting in vegetable garden.
    12 Worst Vegetable Garden Pests
  • Cicada waking up
    Broods of the Periodical Cicada
  • Bombardier beetle illustration with cutaway abdomen.
    The Exploding Bombardier Beetles
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