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.

Articles About Creepy Crawlies

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In Case of Fire, Follow the Ants

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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Did Spiders Evolve Knees Through Gene Duplication?

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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Fear the Parasitic Wasp: Spider Zombies Caught in Web of Deceit

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.
Magazine Department Article
Crab Crossing

July 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Every year before Christmas, a vibrant red carpet covers Christmas Island, northwest of Australia.
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Periodical Cicadas—Synchronized Swarming

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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In Bedbugs, Scientists Don’t See a Model of Evolution

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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The Indestructible Cockroach

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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Face Mites ‘R’ (on) Us

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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Cambrian Predator Wore Its Brain out in Front

July 30, 2014 from Answers in Depth
This predatory beast of very little brain drove evolution of brighter brains, evolutionists say.
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Bacterial Bodyguard

Oct. 1, 2012 from Answers Magazine
Scientists were shocked to discover that some stinkbugs have developed resistance to insecticide.
Snails and Their Unique Genetic Variations

Oct. 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.
Veggie-loving Spider

Oct. 17, 2009 from News to Know
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At a Snail’s Pace

Oct. 1, 2009 from Answers Magazine
According to researchers, garden snails are evolving slower metabolisms.
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Scuba Spiders

April 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine
This remarkable spider shouts the wisdom of its Designer.
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A Few Facts from Under the Rocks

June 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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Wonderful Worms

March 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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What 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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Hairy 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.