Small (just a few centimeters long), with pinkish-red “stems” and feather-duster-like “petals”—which are, in fact, respiratory palps used for breathing—they resemble plants more than ...
Drain flies sneak in from the outside, through a crack in an old pipe, for example, to sip some water they sensed with this long mustache – their maxillary palps. And here, on the plentiful gunk in ...
Now, here's a spooky one. While the prior two entries have focused on those theories that clever fans landed on after joining the dots found in promotional material or social media, this one ...
Season: These spiders are usually seen in the autumn months when males leave their webs in search of females. They frequently enter homes through open windows, chimneys or gaps beneath doors. A large ...
You can tell males from females as males have smaller bodies, longer legs and larger palps to transfer sperm to female spiders. Worcestershire Wildlife Trust encourages the public to submit ...
The mouthparts are of the piercing/sucking type, with two pairs of well-developed palps. The legs are relatively long, the hind ones with especially large coxae to enable jumping, and the ...