This doesn’t usually happen to me. I'm always peely-wally. I’m often mistaken for a ghost or a pint of milk, especially if I ...

The Octonauts are taking their adventures beyond the sea - and onto land! The team of adventurers will continue to explore ...

In Britain, the list of spiders that could potentially cause health issues include the false widow, the tube web, woodlouse spider, cardinal spider, the walnut orb-weaver spider, wasp spider ...

The velvet worm’s extraordinary goo could inspire recyclable bioplastics ...

When it comes to the Welsh term for a woodlouse, he said this translates to "twrch coed", which means "tree hog". It's fair to say this tipped things over the edge, and left people in hysterics.

A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, ...

Seeing a spider in your home is never pleasant, but you shouldn't assume that these arachnids are always going to be dangerous or harmful. The woodlouse spider, Dysdera crocata, is a prime example.

When you talk about venomous spiders in the United States, the brown recluse spider probably comes to mind. But not all spiders that resemble this dangerous critter are harmful. In fact, there are ...

IN the spring of 1938 Prof. G. E. Hutchinson found a small white blind myrmecophilous sowbug in North Branford, Connecticut. The species was afterwards found in ants' nests in a small tract of ...

Ultra-rare 'blue woodlouse' amazes people until they learn sad truth behind colour An insect enthusiast took to Reddit to share an image of the rare blue woodlouse they found this week.

Even the humble woodlouse, hardly renowned as a thing of great beauty by daylight, scuttles from within the creases of bark in a dazzling shade of azure blue.

Woodlice are tiny, don’t bite, move slowly and are generally unthreatening. They are part of biological processes essential to life. So what’s not to like?