Bugs often creep people out, but they are truly quite amazing animals. Learn all about the biology of bugs in this section.
Fleas have three real talents – eating, breeding and waiting. If you leave your home and take your pets with you, any fleas inside will just wait for you to return so they can get back to eating blood and making babies. See more »
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. Are these insects the imaginary stuff of rhyme, or should we watch out for these tiny biters between the sheets?
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With DDT on the no-no list and international travel more common than ever, the little parasites known as bedbugs are showing up in record numbers across the country.
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Fleas have three real talents – eating, breeding and waiting. If you leave your home and take your pets with you, any fleas inside will just wait for you to return so they can get back to eating blood and making babies.
See more »Bedbug, a wingless, bloodsucking insect. It is reddish brown, has a flat body, and is about one-sixth of an inch (4 mm) long.
See more »Bug, a name often given to any kind of insect but that properly belongs only to insects of the order Hemiptera.
See more »Chinch Bug, an insect, related to the bedbug and the squash bug, noted for its destructive effect in grain fields.
See more »Electric-light Bug, or Giant Water Bug, a water bug named for its habit of flying around electric lights.
See more »Mealybug, a scale insect named for a granular, white powder secreted by the body.
See more »Stinkbug, the common name for a family of insects. There are thousands of species, found in most parts of the world.
See more »Water Bug, an insect that lives in or on lakes, ponds, streams, or the ocean. Water bugs have piercing mouthparts through which they suck the body juices of fish, frogs, tadpoles, salamanders, and insects.
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