The Tiger Beetle, at first glance, this beetle looks like it accidentally ate a bunch of miracle grow and possibly overdosed on something that it definitely shouldn’t have gotten into. When you first see a Tiger Beetle, you see that…
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In various aspects of popular culture, many forms of wildlife have been portrayed. Penguins are by no means any different from each other. In forms of media such as video games, movies, TV shows, commercials, books, and so forth, you…
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Both adult tiger beetles and their larva are fierce predators. The adults use their sickle shaped jaws to catch unsuspecting insects. And the larva, living in tunnels with in dry dirt or sand, use their strong jaws to snatch passing…
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A lot of people will mistake a grasshopper with a cricket. They are related but are indeed two different species of insect. The grasshopper prefers to eat leaves, grasses and cereal grains. For reasons unknown, some grasshoppers will only eat…
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Algae are a diverse group of simple organisms that live in aquatic environments, including the ocean, freshwater, ponds and moist land. Algae contain chlorophyll and are able to go through the process of photosynthesis, like plants; however, they lack the…
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The Reason only Female Mosquito Sucks Blood: The female mosquito is the only one of the Culicidae family that consumes blood because, unlike other parasitic creatures that survive exclusively on the fluids of living animals, the mosquito only uses blood…
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The members of the insect order Mecoptera are commonly known as scorpionflies, although only the males of one family actually have an upturned tip to the abdomen that superficially resembles a scorpion’s tail, but is harmless. Most scorpionflies are small insects…
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Animal social groups are as varied as the animals on our planet. While I do not consider myself capable of understanding the inner workings of an animal social group, I have been a privileged observer to one particular group for…
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Amphibians are important in an evolutionary sense because early amphibians were the ancestors of all reptiles, birds and mammals. They left the water in the Devonian period about 270 million years ago to become the first vertebrates to colonise land….
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Quokkas are small, nocturnal marsupial native to the southwestern parts of the world that belongs to the Wallaby species. Like the joey, the Quokka spends its early life inside of its mother’s pouch for about half of the year. Unlike…
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