Scotsman John Hunter was an inveterate explorer and officer in Great Britain’s Royal Navy. A natural scholar, Hunter was sent to then largely unknown Australia in 1788. He spent much of the next ...

The mantidfly, Climaciella brunnea ... Nothing remarkable here, but everything that follows is remarkable. The larvae hatch out, attach caudal suckers to the substrate and then rear up, waiting for a ...

For example, one recent study has examined how the substrate-bound cues left by adult spiders influence the behaviour of mantidfly larvae, illustrating a key interspecific interaction that has ...

Spider-boarding is practiced by a group of insects called mantidflies. The larvae of most mantidfly species are fussy diners – they only eat the eggs of spiders. That seems like a dangerous ...

This was a brown wasp mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea), which is closely related to the lacewings. Eric Eaton, entomologist and one of the authors of the “Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North ...