Creepy Crawlies

WHILE most 11 year olds are only interested in watching YouTube videos and playing Fortnite, Shelby Counterman would rather spend time with her enormous INSECT collection

AN ANIMAL enthusiast is helping the elderly with dementia by visiting care homes with snakes, tarantulas and cockroaches

IN AN eccentric dance, a male spider attempts to woo his mate with his moves and colourful mouthparts

A PULSATING cicada sheds its exoskeleton after living underground as a nymph for seven years

IN A SCENE resembling a science fiction movie, an alien-like amblypygi, or whip spider, sheds its skin

LAYING only a single egg, the spider wasp has a brutal method to ensure its young have a high chance of survival

WITH their ginormous compound eyes, it’s hard not to feel as if these damselflies are staring right at you

Meet the fearless reptile-loving couple who share their home with hundreds of exotic creatures - including venomous snakes and an aggressive 5ft long Nile Monitor lizard

IT'S easy to disregard a dead fly, and sweep it into the bin. However one photographer’s macro images enlighten us to the extraordinary unseen faces of these, and many other, insects

THESE macro shots of spiders are a window into the incy wincy world of spiders