Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Solifuge arachnids, also known as camel spiders or wind scorpions, are of keen interest to Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, two Portland-based insect scientists who blog at The Bug Chicks.

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

LANDER - You say camel spider, I say wind scorpion - let's call the whole thing off. It turns out camel spiders are native to the American West - we just don't call them camel spiders. And they don't ...

Sun spiders, also known as camel spiders, aren’t actually spiders at all. They have a fearsome reputation and will prey on a variety of insects, ranging from wasps to silverfish. Although sun spiders ...