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How Do Insects Eliminate Waste?
Insects eliminate waste by passing food and water through malpighian tubules that convert the waste into uric acid, which is then excreted from the insect's body. Find out more about a bug's excreted...
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How Does a Bee Fly?
A bee is able to fly by beating their wings at a tremendous speed, which allows them to simply hover or to move through space. Get more information about a bee's flight, which is similar to a...
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How Do Fruit Flies Grow?
Fruit flies grow through a process called metamorphosis, beginning as an egg, hatching into a larva, turning into a pupa and finally becoming an adult fruit fly. Discover the fruit fly's life cycle...
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Facts About a Tarantula
The tarantula is a hairy spider that belongs to the arthropod invertebrate family, and it can be one of the biggest spiders in existence. Learn how tarantulas catch their prey with information from a...
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How Are Wasp Nests Made?
Wasps create their nests by chewing on wood pulp, mixing it with saliva and producing a papery substance that is layered up into a nest form. Find out how wasps make their nests with information from a...
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How Long Do Fruit Flies Live?
Fruit flies live only between 10 to 18 days, but they can reproduce very rapidly and start the metamorphosis all over again. Discover the fruit fly's life cycle with information from a high school...
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How Fast Can a Dragonfly Fly?
Dragonflies can fly at a rate between 30 and 60 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to about 19 to 38 miles per hour, because of their double set of wings. Learn more about a dragonfly's flight...
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What Are Fruit Flies Attracted To?
Fruit flies are generally attracted to sugar, as are most other flies, but they are particularly fond of over-ripe fruit with its high sugar content. Find out what else attracts fruit flies with...
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Types of Butterfly Cocoons
When the weather begins to break and the landscape brightens, the brilliant colors of the first spring butterflies will begin to emerge. Butterflies that were once dormant, will awaken and lay their...
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How to Frame Butterflies
Butterflies come in different sizes and colors, and are considered beautiful by many people. Because of this, butterfly-themed rooms, areas and pictures have been adorning homes for generations. Often,...
View ArticleWhat Eats Pepper Plant Leaves?
There are over thirty-five kinds of bugs that feed upon pepper plants. They can damage or kill pepper plants by eating away at the leaves, which are necessary for the plant to make food to grow the...
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What Is the Scientific Name for a Brown Stink Bug?
The brown stink bug has the scientific name Euschistus servus. In the south, it can be a damaging pest to crops such as soybeans, peaches, and corn. It is a small insect that gets its name from a...
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What Is the Life Cycle of a Dermestid Beetle?
Dermestid beetles are also known as flesh-eating beetles because they eat carrion (dead animals). Museums and taxidermists use dermestid beetles to eat the flesh off skeletons. The beetles quickly and...
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How to Make a Ladybug Habitat
Ladybugs can make interesting pets, and are also useful to keep for gardeners as a natural pest control agent. Making a habitat for them to thrive in is also very simple, and they require a lot less...
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How to Identify Insects in South Carolina
South Carolina is renowned for its coastal white sandy beaches, black water swamps and flourishing forests. Insects are ever-present in these environments. Whether you are a nature lover or someone...
View ArticleHow to Make Bug Boxes
Creating bug boxes is a fun and creative activity for kids which can help teach science and illuminate the insect world. They require only a couple of household materials and will last a long time. You...
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How to Start Beekeeping
Records of beekeeping date as far back as ancient Rome and Egypt, establishing it as one of the earliest forms of agricultural food production. Although the United States' bee population dropped in...
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Why Are Butterfly Wings So Colorful?
Butterflies are among the most colorful and beautiful insects. They flitter from flower to flower, sometimes pausing to eat nectar or rest their wings. As they span out, their colors are on display for...
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How to Buy a Queen Bee
A young, healthy queen bee is essential to establishing or maintaining a productive hive. If you are starting a hive or your old queen bee has died or left with a swarm, you will need to purchase a...
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Facts About the Walking Stick Bug
Walking stick bugs (from the Phasmida family) are very aptly named, because they look like sticks with legs and antennae, but even those will look as if they are twigs attached to a small branch....
View ArticleWhat Do Queen Ants Do?
At first glance, the queen ant's role consists of putting on perfume (pheromones), attracting a mate, digging a burrow and then lying around the rest of her life eating ant bon-bons and laying eggs....
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Goliath Tarantula Facts
The goliath tarantula (theraphosa blondi) is known by a variety of names, including the goliath bird-eating spider and the goliath birdeater. Just as these names suggests, goliath tarantulas are big...
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Butterfly Farming
Butterfly farming is a huge industry around the world from large-scale conservatories to private backyard butterfly gardens. Discover how these beautiful insects are grown with information from a...
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How to Take Care of a Butterfly House
Taking care of a butterfly house depends on its scale, but planting flowers that butterflies like, hanging supplemental nectar feeders, providing fruit trees and maintaining proper light will encourage...
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How Does a Caterpillar Turn Into a Butterfly?
A caterpillar turns into a butterfly through a process of molting after it chews itself out of the egg, as the chrysalis and chrysalides exist inside the caterpillar as it grows and sheds skin....
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What Is the Life Span of a Monarch Butterfly?
The life span of a monarch butterfly ranges from three weeks to nine months, depending on whether it is a migratory monarch or not. Explore the life cycle of monarchs with information from a butterfly...
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How Long Does a Butterfly Stay in a Chrysalis Cocoon?
A butterfly will stay in a chrysalis from five days to a year, depending on the time of year, the climate and the environmental state. Find out why some butterflies stay in their chrysalises longer...
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What Season Do Butterfly Cocoons Hatch?
Butterflies usually hatch from their chrysalis cocoons in the spring, but they can hatch any time of year in tropical climates. Understand the variables that affect when butterflies hatch with...
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How Does a Butterfly Build a Cocoon?
Butterflies build chrysalis cocoons by finding a sheltered area, hanging upside-down and shedding its skin to expose the chrysalis. Discover the chrysalis stage of this insect's life with information...
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What Is the Name of a Yellow Butterfly?
Many different butterflies are yellow, but a two common ones are the Tiger Swallowtail and the Sulfur butterfly. Identify different species of yellow butterflies with information from a butterfly...
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How to Find Butterfly Cocoons
To find butterfly chrysalises and moth cocoons, look on branches, under leaves, near water and on plants that caterpillars like to eat. Locate chrysalises and cocoons before predators find them with...
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Diagram of a Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies have four visible legs, two legs tucked under the head, bright orange wings and white spots over the whole body. Discover the features of both male and female monarchs with...
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How Do Fossil Fuels Impact the Environment?
Our modern world runs on ancient materials called fossil fuels. The United States primarily uses coal to create electricity. Petroleum fuels our vehicles in the form of gasoline and natural gas heats...
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How to Neutralize Bee and Wasp Stings
Bee and Wasp stings can be both painful and itchy, and are very common during the summer. Fortunately there are easy ways of neutralizing the toxins that these stings deliver and reducing the pain....
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What is the Life Cycle of a Cicada
Cicadas are small insects that measure between two and five cm in length. They are recognized by their big eyes, short antennae and distinctive chirp. The life cycle of the cicada is unique, and can...
View ArticleCommon Spiders in Virginia
Spiders are one type of creepy crawly critter that gets on lots of people’s nerves. Most spiders are not dangerous, though, and in some situations they can actually be beneficial. In Virginia, there...
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Are Grasshoppers Harmful or Helpful?
Grasshoppers are often considered to be more harmful than helpful when it comes to their interaction with vegetation and crops, but whether they are indeed harmful or helpful depends upon the species....
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The Life Cycle of Ants
Ants are colony insects in the same order as wasps and bees--Hymenoptera. They are found in varied ecosystems across the planet, from deserts to the near arctic. Their society consists of "castes,"...
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Do Snakes Have Eyelids?
Snakes do not have eyelids, but instead they have a small scale above each eye that protects them from irritation. See how a snake sheds its skin and protects its eyes with information from a high...
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Biology of Fleas
A flea's biology includes being an invertebrate and, more specifically, an arthropod with a thick exoskeleton. Find out more about the biology of fleas, including their habits and eggs, with...
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How to Identify Spider Egg Sacs
Spiders might give you the willies, especially in your house. They also might be your best friend in the garden, eating pest insects. In either case, using egg sacs can be one way to identify spiders...
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What Kills Bed Bugs?
There are several species of bed bugs (also known as bed fleas or bed mites), but all of them feed on the blood of birds, animals and humans. They are so small that they can stow away on migrating...
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How to Convert Square Feet to Yards
You must convert some materials, such as carpeting, to square yards before you can conduct meaningful price comparisons. Other materials, such as concrete or fill dirt, are also expressed as “yards”...
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How to Identify the Most Common North American Spider Species
There are many different spider species in North America, a few of which can be harmful. This article looks at ways to identify the various common species you might encounter in your travels.
View ArticleHow Long do Ants With Wings Live?
Ants with wings are reproductive males and females who have not reached maturity yet. Not to be confused with termites, which at first glance may look similar, winged ants are reproductive ants at a...
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Where Do Fruit Flies Come From?
Fruit flies come from the eggs laid by other fruit flies, and they are mostly attracted to over-ripe fruit due to its high sugar content. Explore the fruit fly, and get rid of rotting fruit to rid the...
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Do Fruit Flies Bite?
Fruit flies do not bite because, instead of teeth, they have proboscis injectors that help them eat over-ripe fruit more efficiently. Discover more about how a fruit fly eats with information from a...
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Different Types of Spiders
The different types of spiders, such as the black widow, daddy long legs, banana spider and tarantula, all belong to the arthropod invertebrate group of insects with legs and joints. Discover the...
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