Insects and Spiders

Those who own a tarantula or other pet spiders may love the idea of allowing their spider to crawl all over them. However, don’t be too surprised if the spider tries to escape or doesn’t stay on your body. Tarantulas, in particular, have a slightly larger brain than other spiders. Yet despite the minuscule change […]

The short and simple answer is no. Do you care to know why? No, tarantula’s don’t chase you. It’s because they are too small to chase anyone. Sure, they’re one of the largest, hairiest, and scariest spiders on the planet. Because of their size and their alien features, they can look awfully menacing. But the

Tarantulas are not only unwitting masters at instilling fear in humans, they also have plenty of things to be scared of themselves. This includes natural predators such as the hawk wasp. It also includes larger animals, such as human beings. The sheer size of a human can be enough to frighten the poor spider into

The tarantula is not an insect. It is actually a member of the arachnid family. Other members of the arachnid family include scorpions, ticks, and mites. Just naming off the various members of this family is enough to give many people the heebie jeebies. It is true that arachnids are a much misunderstood and very

Tarantula’s are much smarter than you might think, but measuring just how smart there is kind of hard. It’s hard enough to come up with one way to do this for humans, so you can imagine how tough it can be when talking about other animals. Considering that I always read that scientists didn’t consider

Are There Hissing Cockroaches in California Are there Madagascar hissing cockroaches in California? The answer is a resounding yes. Madagascar hissing cockroaches first arrived on the California movie scene in 1975 when these unique creatures were chosen by directors and producers for starring roles in films like “Bug,” “Damnation Alley” and “Starship Troopers.” By 2002,

Are Hissing Cockroaches Poisonous? Accordingly to nearly every scientist and doctor I’ve come across, no cockroach is inherently poisonous in their natural state. They don’t carry any poison in their bodies and they certainly don’t have any body parts that could sting you. If you’re worried about them having a barb the same way that

Are Madagascar hissing cockroaches social or solitary? When scientists Zuzana Varadinova, Daniel Frynta and Vaclav Stejskal undertook research focused on cockroaches, they proclaimed Blattaria to be universally gregarious insects, and some species are notably sociable critters. Not so Madagascar hissing cockroaches, despite the fact that they live in large colonies. Madagascar hissing cockroaches belonging to

Since hissing cockroaches are insects, they’re by definition invertebrates. It’s a little confusing considering that the word vertebrate would suggest that they have a strong back and it’s obvious that roaches have a pretty tough shell on the outside of their bodies, but vertebrates have an actual spine according to scientists. Most of the biologists

Hissing cockroaches are insects, so they’re not mammals. While they don’t have wings and might not look like other roaches, they’re still part of the same family that all cockroaches belong to. I didn’t remember everything from high school biology class, so I went to check up on a hard definition of the difference between