Pest control workers have seen a 30 per cent increase in requests to exterminate the hideous insects since the beginning of spring. According to The Pest Company, which is based in Queensland — home ...

Workers in Australia's pet industry say the demand for insects as pets has risen in the past five years because of more cramped living -- and so has the number of people befriending cockroaches, with ...

A study has found some surprising features in two new species of burrowing scorpions, including a very strangely shaped 'tail tip' and some 'sexy' anatomy features. Terrestrial biologists have taken a ...

DOUGLAS, Australia – A new species of stick insect discovered in a rainforest in northeastern Australia may be the heaviest insect ever found on the continent, according to researchers from the ...

This video show the moment scientists held a newly discovered species of stick insect which is believed to be the heaviest insect in Australia. Research published on Thursday (31 July) has identified ...