A red dragonfly carries the dragonfly’s message of transformation, lightness and fresh perspective, and its red adds energy, passion and life force. Here is what it means in love, after a death, in faith and in Japan.
House spiders, wolf spiders, grass spiders, hobo spiders and sac spiders get mistaken for recluses. Six eyes and plain legs settle the question.
Every blue centipede is venomous, but almost none in the US can do more than a wasp sting. The six species behind the sightings, with size, range and risk.
Ant dreams point to small, persistent pressures or to hard, shared work. Here is what ants in your house, bed, or food mean, plus killing ants, swarms, and the spiritual and biblical readings.
Sweat bees drink your perspiration for the salt. What they look like, how much the sting hurts, which lookalikes actually bite, and how to move one off your skin.
A praying mantis landing on you is read as a call for stillness and precise timing, and as one of the luckiest insect encounters in folk belief.
A grasshopper landing on you is read as a push to leap forward, and in several traditions as luck or money arriving. Here is what each situation means.
A black spider with white spots on its back is usually a harmless bold jumping spider. The one exception is a juvenile black widow, and telling them apart takes five seconds.
A white ladybug is usually a newly emerged beetle, a pale species such as the twenty-spotted lady beetle, or an insect that is not a ladybug at all.
Nine spiders get mistaken for black widows in US homes and yards. The underside settles it: only true widows carry a red or orange hourglass.