With their pincers, horns and armour, these minibeasts might look terrifying, but luckily for us they are tiny and harmless. You can see them all around us, living in leaf litter, plants, water, sand ...

And so is a rare insect known as an ice crawler. While most bugs go dormant during cold weather ... under logs and into crevasses to stay cool in summer. Another oddity? Ice crawlers can live ...

Once a stink bug enters a home, it will produce pheromones ... Stink bugs look for the warmest places when the weather turns ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition ... legs they use to meander around rotting leaves in cool, shady areas of New Zealand, Australia, Africa, South ...

These primitive little bugs, commonly known as springtails ... but they’re totally harmless to us and our pets. “They are an insect that is not really a flea, so don’t worry about them ...

Slimy, scary, "the size of a Buick" — we use a lot of terms to describe bugs, but "yummy" isn't usually one of them. We associate insect ingestion with reality television shows like Fear Factor ...