Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square ...

Scientists recently found more than 111,000 spiders living in what is being called the world's biggest spiderweb. The gigantic web was discovered in the ...

Fibromermis roarki n. gen., n. sp. (Nematoda: Mermithidae) is described from the hemocoel of chironomid imagos of Ablabesmyia monilis (L.) eclosing from the headwaters of the Mississippi River at ...

Insects of the family Chironomidae, also known as chironomids, are distributed worldwide in a variety of water habitats. These insects display a wide range of tolerance toward metals and organic ...

The larva of the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki -- a mosquito-like insect that inhabits semi-arid areas of Africa -- is well known for being able to come back to life after being nearly ...

Chironomids, a group of aquatic insects closely related to mosquitoes, act as natural reservoirs of disease-causing cholera bacteria and can forewarn against possible outbreaks of the diarrheal ...

When I lived in Belfast in the early 2000s and needed wildness, a visit westwards to the gently sloping, marshy shores of Lough Neagh was just the thing. The sky above the lake – a body of shallow ...

Museum scientists have developed a 'midge thermometer' that allows us to reconstruct a highly detailed record of environmental and climatic change over thousands of years, accurate to within 1°C. The ...