Entomologist Steven Kutcher has worked as a wrangler of creepy crawlies on movies like Arachnophobia, Jurassic Park, and James and the Giant Peach. But his artist interest in insects and arachnids go beyond the silver screen. He also dips their bodies in paint and places them on a canvas, letting his tiny artists…

Bed bugs are a major cause of paranoia, and the mere suggestion of an infestation can lead to mass panic. But with all the scientific tools at our disposal, we ought to be able to figure out how these things work, and stop them from infesting our homes and us miserable. Right? And now, luckily, there's been a major…

We may think of ants as industrious little creatures constantly toiling for the sake of the hive. But Andrey Pavlov's photographs imagine how ants might spend their free time, in lightly fantastical scenes.

These stunning snapshots are from a series by Japanese photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu, who employed a variety of time-lapse techniques to capture the awe-inspiring beauty of fireflies in flight.

Don't look away from the mighty Giant Weta Bug! With a wing span of seven inches and the weight of three mice, this this New Zealand discovery is pure, unfiltered nightmare fuel.

Watch in horror as a mosquito man searches for his bloody meal and takes a mate. Technically, it's not an official "mansquito" but it's still a man whose body has mutated into a half-skeeter, half-man creature. Close enough! Check out the trailer for Sucker.

Some things are just more terrifying in high definition. Watch as a pack of mosquitoes gorge themselves on human blood, then go vomit in your trashcan.

Vague reports about Barry Levinson's new science fiction film Isopod have led us to hope like we never have before. Will the nasty parasites that bite off the tongues of fish FINALLY be getting their own feature film?

If fear is the mind killer, as Muad'dib explained, the routes for banishing those fears are equally devastating — it usually means confronting them. But a new Spanish study, using virtual roaches, might unlock a less grody path.

Okay, maybe that's a little hyperbolic, but this little genre gem — which follows two teens, a camera, an evil book, and chompy, chompy beasties — carries a potent charge.