Creepy Crawlies
Beetles—Go Anywhere, Do Anything
Our Maker shows that He can create immense variety from one basic body design. Like living versions of the popular Transformers, the beetles’ basic body parts can be altered to serve radically different purposes.
Communicating Ants
Ants’ advanced communication abilities enable several species of ants to maintain complex social organizations. So complex are some of these societies that they have been dubbed superorganisms. Their sophisticated networking abilities point to the Great Communicator, Jesus Christ, who designed creation to reflect His attributes (Romans 1:20).
Helpful Honey Bees
Bees are extremely important to us, though we tend to take them for granted. Indeed, nearly one-third of the food on our plates comes from plants pollinated by bees, and honey and beeswax are multi-billion-dollar industries.
Scary Scorpions
The scorpion is a vivid reminder of the Curse and the deadly consequences of our sin against a holy and just God. Scorpions rank very high on the creep scale. With their large pincers on one end, a long, curving, stinging tail on the other, their intimidating ninja pose, and their frightening name, it’s no wonder they strike fear.
Creepy Crawlies Topics
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Insects
The insect world displays stunning variety from butterflies to ants to beetles to bees. This variety is not the result of evolution but of God’s creativity.
Articles About Creepy Crawlies
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Oct. 22, 2023 from Answers Magazine
The bolas spider uses a droplet of strong adhesive on the end of a strand of silk to snag moths from midair.
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Oct. 20, 2023 from Answers in Depth
Carpenter ant colonies evade zombie apocalypse because only the climbing dead become weapons of mass dispersion.
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Oct. 15, 2023 from Answers Magazine
If God is good, why are some creatures so bad?
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Jan. 8, 2023 from Answers Magazine
This agile flyer scoots in and out of tight spots faster than any plane Boeing or Airbus ever dreamed of.
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Oct. 2, 2022 from Answers Magazine
How did disgusting parasites become part of God’s “very good” creation?
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July 3, 2022 from Answers Magazine
Two marvels in one: a spider that loves vegetables and a master thief, adept at nabbing golden treasures from fiercely guarded repositories.
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Nov. 29, 2020 from Answers Magazine
The lowly sea snail, of all things, has a unique way of manufacturing armor from soft ingredients.
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Oct. 25, 2020 from Answers Magazine
Our world is filled with the little monsters and these parasites can be pretty nasty.
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Oct. 11, 2020 from Answers Magazine
Scorpions appear armed to scare and kill. Are we supposed to be afraid, or is it just our imagination?
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March 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine
When they work together, these insignificant insects can accomplish significant things.
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Oct. 9, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Many parasitoid wasps optimize the reception for their larvae by injecting venom that disables the host insect’s immune system or changes its behavior.
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Sept. 3, 2017 from Answers Magazine
Next time you’re tempted to brush away a spider web, stop to consider the engineering required . . . and the Engineer behind the engineer.
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Oct. 16, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Gifted ant architects have built thriving cities on every continent—using every imaginable kind of material.
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Aug. 7, 2016 from Answers Magazine
The family of giant silk moths, or Saturniidae, includes the largest—and arguably most beautiful—moths in the world.
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April 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Sometimes we’d be better off if we just kept our jaws shut. It’s a different story for the trap-jaw ant.
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April 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
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Nov. 8, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Ant behavior may help us save lives. Creation is overflowing with such practical ideas and possible solutions to our most vexing problems.
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Oct. 31, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Spiders were designed with two versions of the dachshund gene, one essential to knee formation, but spider knees did not evolve through gene duplication.
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Sept. 5, 2015 from Answers in Depth
When a parasitic wasp skewers an orb spider and glues an egg to its back, she sets off a chain of events that alters the behavior and destiny of the spider.
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Magazine Department ArticleCrab CrossingJuly 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Every year before Christmas, a vibrant red carpet covers Christmas Island, northwest of Australia.
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March 22, 2015 from Answers Magazine
What’s fascinating about periodical cicadas is their sheer numbers and the mysterious timing of their emergence from hiding.
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Feb. 13, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Research shows that bedbugs are still bedbugs. They don't demonstrate Darwinian evolution—they vary within their created kind to survive in a sin-cursed world.
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Jan. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Most people would be happy to live in a world without cockroaches. But even creatures we see as pests show God’s amazing designs.
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Oct. 14, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Germophobes beware: a new study suggests that all adults have face mites. But did they follow us through evolutionary history?
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleCambrian Predator Wore Its Brain out in FrontJuly 30, 2014 from Answers in Depth
This predatory beast of very little brain drove evolution of brighter brains, evolutionists say.
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Dust Mites Defy Dollo’s LawMarch 30, 2013 from News to Know
University of Michigan researchers believe these free-living, non-parasitic, but allergy-causing arachnids prove that reverse evolution is possible.
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Magazine Department ArticleBacterial BodyguardOct. 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine
Scientists were shocked to discover that some stinkbugs have developed resistance to insecticide.
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Snails and Their Unique Genetic VariationsOct. 15, 2011 from News to Know
Convinced that genetic similarities confirm a common ancestry for two kinds of snails, researchers sought a transitional form and believe they found it.
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Veggie-loving SpiderOct. 17, 2009 from News to Know
Most would agree that spiders are one of the more menacing predators in nature—spinning webs and lying in wait for helplessly trapped victims. But one Meso-American spider will have (almost) nothing of it.
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Magazine Department ArticleAt a Snail’s PaceOct. 1, 2009 from Answers Magazine
According to researchers, garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms.
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April 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine
This remarkable spider shouts the wisdom of its Designer.
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Magazine ArticleA Few Facts from Under the RocksJune 1, 2001, pp. 14–15
The Robber (or Coconut) Crab, Birgus latro, is not only the world’s largest land invertebrate, it’s also a thief that climbs trees at night and steals coconuts!
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Magazine ArticleWonderful WormsMarch 1, 1998, pp. 56–57
Earthworms are highly specialized creatures. They seem obviously designed for their important task of burrowing through soil.
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Magazine ArticleWhat is Peripatus?Sept. 1, 1994, pp. 40–41
At first glance, it looks like a caterpillar. However, on closer examination the external appearance is more like an annelid (earth) worm.
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Magazine ArticleHairy Horror or High-Tech Marvel?June 1, 1991, pp. 10–13
Without spiders, we would be literally suffocated out of existence, if not actually eaten alive, by all manner of bugs.
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