Tarantulas, Killer Caterpillars, and the Most Misunderstood Bugs
We hung out with swarms of bug scientists to find out the most common misperceptions of the critters under our feet.
Orlando, FloridaBonding with bugs is the point of the Insect Expo at the 2016 International Congress of Entomology, and the impetus for Weird Animal Question of the Week to ask: What is the world’s most misunderstood insect?
Spiders, mosquitoes, and bed bugs were also mentioned, but here are the good, the bad, and the bugly.
Justin Schmidt, author of the new book The Sting of the Wild, knows a thing or two about truly unpleasant bugs—and he says this isn’t one of them.
This “docile” arachnid of the southwestern U.S. and Florida won’t bite people, but if harassed, it will spray a vinegar-like acid from the base of its long tail that's 15 times more concentrated than the vinegar on your
