http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, a giant rat, many new insects and spiders, giant caterpillars, and a new bat species. http://www.physorg.com/news171612975.html Biology Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:20:01 EST news171612975 A switch from annual to multiyear colonies and a willingness to feed just about any prey to their young have allowed invasive yellowjacket wasps to disrupt native populations of insects and spiders on two Hawaiian islands, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news167329804.html Biology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:30:41 EST news167329804 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so a June 19 study suggests, published in the journal Ecology, and featured in the journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news165163648.html Biology Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:20:03 EST news165163648 Money spiders infected with Rickettsia bacteria are less likely to 'balloon' - that is, to use their silk as sails to catch gusts of wind and travel long distances. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology suggest that it may be in the bacteria's interests to ground the spiders and that this reduction in dispersal could reduce gene flow and impact on reproductive isolation within the meta-population. http://www.physorg.com/news164594544.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:03 EST news164594544 As the cold weather creeps in, so do brown recluse spiders. True to their name, the brown recluse is a shy, reclusive spider looking for a warm home. Drawn to clutter, closets and complex storage environments, the spiders actually want to stay away from humans. But, if care is not taken, people could find themselves sharing their home with one of 'the big three,' according to a University of Missouri entomologist. The brown recluse is one of three spiders in the United States considered venomous - the other two are the black widow and the hobo spider. http://www.physorg.com/news148565847.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:17:27 EST news148565847 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 has generated a buzz among scientists, astronauts, the news media and has even spawned an Internet video set to the music of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider." http://www.physorg.com/news146853327.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:35:27 EST news146853327 Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London. http://www.physorg.com/news139749790.html Biology Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:23:10 EST news139749790 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to work together and capture larger prey has allowed social spiders to stretch the laws of nature and reach enormous colony sizes, UBC zoologists have found. http://www.physorg.com/news137173947.html Biology Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:52:27 EST news137173947