False Widows aside, attention focuses on spiders at Halloween. . Since many people are afraid of them, fear of the spider is exploited with models of large, long-legged, hairy black individuals with ...

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: We relish the new vocabulary that comes with these terrestrial isopods – and how to tell the difference between males and females It’s not every day a woodlouse expert ...

This deep sea creepy-crawly gave oil workers a fright, after the unexpected visitor hitched a ride on a submarine sent from a rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The beast normally lives 8,500ft under water ...

The new Bathynomus species scavenges in the deep ocean. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A colossal, creamy yellow woodlouse ...

Invasive and exotic animals have long been common subjects of scarelore, and messages alerting readers to the supposed threat posed by some new or previously unheard-of species often spread like ...

The consumption and assimilation rates of the woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare were measured on leaf litters from five herb species grown and naturally senesced at 350 and 700 μl l-1 CO₂. Each type of ...

If you were to see one of these in your garden, or in the park, what would you call it? A woodlouse? Or maybe something else entirely? Researchers have been carrying out a survey to find out the ...