Wheel bugs are unassuming until they strike. They spend most of their time hiding, using leafy plants as cover. Their markings provide camouflage, which they use to great effect. That's probably a ...

A wheel bug is a bizarre-looking insect you'll see in landscapes and other areas late in the year. It may be a bit of a stretch, but I think it resembles a stegosaurus, the dinosaur with prominent ...

Walking up our entry steps after a hard morning of weeding yet another flower bed, a large, slow-moving insect caught my eye as it lumbered across an upper step at eye level. I gave it a closer look ...

When thinking about creepy crawlers, one might think of the 1998 movie called "A Bug's Life" that creates a positive image of little creatures that roam around nature. As fall season arrives, the ...

Wheel bugs are beneficial insects that capture their prey with raptorial front legs (similar to praying mantises) before injecting saliva and feeding. Ken Johnson Ken Johnson Wheel bugs are beneficial ...

Forty miles east of Trinidad the land rises steeply to Mesa de Maya, 15 miles long and five miles wide, just four miles north of the New Mexico border. The mesa stands 700 feet above the plain to the ...

With an appearance only a mother could love, wheel bugs also are called assassin bugs. They look to me like miniature dinosaurs or some other prehistoric creature that are found fossilized in rocks 50 ...