The assassin bug, beneath its creepy camouflage, uses a needle-like mouthpart to paralyze prey and suck out their liquefied insides.

Unlike land spiders, sea spiders do not spin webs or dig burrows. Instead, they use a specialized tubular mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up their prey, such as sea anemones, jellyfish, and other ...

Whether you’re gardening, fishing, swimming, or hiking, you’re not alone out there; biting flies are waiting for you. "Biting flies consist of a diverse group which can range from very small ...

Anopheles mosquitoes have long, thin palps near their mouths that are about the same length as their main mouthpart. Culex pipiens mosquitoes can spread the Japanese Encephalitis virus ...

In the Ocean Hall some 100 sea creatures reside preserved in glass jars. Each specimen has its own unique traits, and together the collection represents the vast diversity of sea life. Here is a ...

It also keeps them well moisturized. If the larva ends up submerged, it can still chow down. It sweeps slime particles out of the water with a hairy mouthpart called the labrum and rakes them in with ...

A horsefly bite, caused by a fly of the Tabanidae family, is painful but usually harmless, causing a raised, red area of skin known as a weal (much like a mosquito bite). Uncomplicated cases can ...

The newly hatched maggots are white and worm-like, with a segmented body, head, and tail. They have a mouthpart that they use to feed on decaying organic matter. Maggots feed voraciously, multiplying ...

Despite its small size, no less than seven different pollination systems have been observed in this group, including two different guilds of long-proboscid fly pollination from families Nemestrinidae ...