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Insects

Behold: insect soup, pictured here under a dissecting microscope.

To Study Pesky Aphids, Scientists Suck Them From the Sky

Every summer and fall, giant vacuums gobble up insects for 13 hours a day.

Jessica Leigh Hester March 5, 2020

<em>Circellium bacchus</em>, a rare subspecies of dung beetle, is a scarab like no other.

The Outsize Allure of South Africa's Flightless Dung Beetle

In Addo Elephant National Park, the smallest residents may be the biggest draw.

Sandra MacGregor March 4, 2020

Firefly populations seem to be flickering in many spots around the world. The insects are pictured here in the Santuario de las Luciernagas, in Tlaxcala, Mexico, in 2017.

The 21st Century Might Not Be So Magical for Fireflies

Experts are flashing a warning for the future.

Jessica Leigh Hester February 4, 2020

A swarm of locusts in Samburu county, approximately 186 miles north of Nairobi, Kenya, on January 22.

How Climate Change Helped Spawn an East African Locust Crisis

Pictures from the ground show an insect storm of biblical proportions.

Zoya Teirstein January 30, 2020

London, England

Horizon Insects

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.

A wiliwili flower in full bloom.

Can a War of the Wasps Save Hawai‘i’s Wiliwili Trees?

It's a classic good wasp/bad wasp situation.

Sabrina Imbler January 15, 2020

Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Harrell House Bug Museum

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

New York's Disappearing Sunken Forest

A hairy monkey diorama made by Ying Li, showing a picnic in the park and a vendor selling pumpkins.

How Chinese Artisans Turn Dead Cicadas Into ‘Hairy Monkeys’

These traditional handicrafts require exoskeletons, magnolia buds, and a steady hand.

Marina Wang December 19, 2019

Deep in a forest in western Poland, is an abandoned Soviet bunker with an unusual ant situation.

The Saga of the Cannibal Ants in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker

And how scientists tried to free this formic Donner Party.

Sabrina Imbler November 20, 2019

The five-legged, three-tailed cat in question.

This Five-Legged Cat Mummy Is Not as Strange as It Seems

A recently scanned cat mummy was probably not a scam, but the remains of animals that died on a sacred site.

Sabrina Imbler November 13, 2019

Bee hotels are like birdhouses for bees: Wild bees don’t don’t live in hives, so they’re always in need of a suitable habitat.

These Girl Scouts Save Wild Bees, One Homemade 'Hotel' at a Time

They repurposed cardboard boxes, old paper straws, and toilet paper rolls to create homes for local bees.

Rachel Ramirez November 6, 2019

Butterfly garden.

Mexico City, Mexico

Mariposario Chapultepec (Chapultepec Butterfly Garden)

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

A close-up of the coffee berry borer, guaranteed to haunt your dreams.

Solved: The Mysterious Origins of Your Coffee's Worst Nightmare

Researchers inspected 18,667 plant specimens to track down a caffeine-eating beetle.

Reina Gattuso October 14, 2019

Beetles

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

Museo Bichos Querétaro (Querétaro Bugs Museum)

One man's personal collection of more than 2,000 creepy-crawlies from around the world.

The Flesh-Eating Beetles of Chicago's Field Museum

The Mantis seen with the Container Park entrance sign.

Las Vegas, Nevada

'The Mantis'

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Researchers in the Northeast are tracking ticks with a linen cloth and a lint roller.

Researchers Track the Tick Boom With Linen Squares and Lint Rollers

The blacklegged bloodsuckers go on three "quests" in their life, each time seeking a blood meal.

Isaac Schultz August 28, 2019