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Here you can find some pictures gallery with a short text introduction. Main subjects are weird and poorly known animals. Sometimes text is in italian, because the topic is particularly interesting for national public

   
         

Ants war

Army ants have numbers, cohesion and aggressiveness. Bullet ants have strength and size. The clash between the two insect species that rule the Amazon rainforest...

 

The day of the frogs

Coming soon ...

 

The spider and the frog

Frogs have difficult lives in South American rainforests. Many of them are preyed by Snakes and by Artropods, especially by spiders which are big and particularly...

 

Saving frogs in the Amazon

Amphibians are disappearing around the globe. They are under pressure because of habitat loss, climate change and the deadly Chitrid fungus...

 

Surprising spiders

Spiders belong to the class Arachnida, together with scorpions, acari and other minor groups. They are the most diverse and exciting group...

 

Cave life, a look at biospeleology

Just a few rays of sun invade the cave entrance. But after a few meters all light is gone. This is the kingdom of dark and silence. Few creatures manage to survive here...

 

Fighting the red fire ants

An invading ant is expanding in all the world damaging local ecosystem and harming people. Story of a battle still to be won...

Elogio della chiocciola

Raramente le è concessa grande attenzione anche se è una presenza costante nei nostri campi e nei giardini. Infatti, più di molti altri animali, la chiocciola...

 
   

The freshwater crab

Potamon fluviatile is one of the less known macro-invertebrates in Europe. It can be found from Italy to Balkans and Greece in small lowland streams covered...

The European tarantula myth

The famous european tarantula (genus Lycosa) is one of the biggest spider in our continent. They are called with the same vulgar name used for the big...

 
 

Much feared spiders

Each spring new alarm calls warn about the danger of Arthopods bites and spiders and their kin are the most targeted...

Surprising mantids


From the fabolous orchid mantis to the impressive devil’s flower mantis, here is a pictures gallery of praying mantids with amazing forms and colours...

 

     

The predatory bush cricket

Considered one of the biggest insects in Europe, if not the biggest, Saga pedo (Pallas, 1771) is one of the rarest too. Although counted in many southern Europe...

 

Survival of the fittest

Invertebrates eating vertebrates. Some impressive predation of spiders, centipedes, solifugids preying mantids and more from the undergrowth...