Beware the Lonomia obliqua, South America's deadliest caterpillar. This creature, often called the assassin caterpillar, carries potent venom. Its needle-like bristles can cause severe bleeding and ...

Playing around with tiny insects and such is cute and all– until it turns out that the insect-is-question is one of the most venomous ones on the face of the earth! Believe it or not, but not every ...

The Lonomia caterpillar holds the Guinness World Record of being the most venomous caterpillar in the world. It’s found throughout South America, primarily in Southern Brazil. There, it’s also known ...

Shanxi Key Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Biopesticides, School of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030031, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity ...

In this manuscript, the authors used in vivo long-term tip recordings of the long trichoid sensilla of male hawkmoths to analyze spontaneous spiking activity indicative of the ORNs' endogenous ...

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CHICAGO -- The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth's oceans 465 million years ago. While our ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research has ...

Dan-Dan Zhang received funding from Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet I Lund on spider research. Gabriele Uhl received funding for exploring the chemical sense of spiders from the German Science ...

A recent study in Nature Communications introduced an all-optical mechano-sensor employing a thin-walled glass microbubble inspired by mechano-sensitive hair-like sensilla (MSHS). Capable of detecting ...