like swinging your arms through the air or swatting at the insect could agitate it. Staying calm and keeping your movements ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

Bee sting Bees do not bite — but they sting ... between the fingers, on the arms, inside the elbows and wrists, and on parts of the body covered by clothing, such as around the genitals.

Despite its name, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is not only implicated in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare genetic disease characterized by low platelet count, eczema and recurrent ...

Wondering what’s worse, the sting of a fire ant or warrior wasp? You’ve come to the right place. Entomologist Justin Schmidt recorded his own experience of venomous stings, to rate and describe the ...