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Bug Week

How Hardened Gangsters Got the Cute Name 'Bugsy'

Once it just meant crazy, now it means criminal.

Eric Grundhauser June 23, 2016

Watch a Stick Insect Lay Eggs to a Smooth Jazz Soundtrack

Up close, personal, and syncopated.

Tao Tao Holmes June 23, 2016

While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons

Most of the Western hemisphere was trying to eliminate Aedes aegypti. Why not the U.S.?

Sarah Laskow June 22, 2016

Watch This Delicate Orchid Mantis Not-So-Delicately Snatch its Prey

They may look and behave like docile creatures, but orchid mantises will attack at the sight of a meal.

Lauren Young June 22, 2016

How a Kitten Video Can Transmit Secret Instructions to Criminals

An ancient form of information-hiding known as steganography has infiltrated the viral internet.

Lauren Young June 22, 2016

Los Angeles, California

La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Termite mound at night

Vila de São Jorge, Brazil

Glowing Termite Mounds of Emas National Park

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

May Natural History Museum

Colorado Springs, Colorado

May Natural History Museum

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

Florissant, Colorado

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

The World Museum of Insects and Natural Wonders

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly collection in the Nabokov Museum

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Nabokov's Butterflies

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

How the World Went Loco For Locust Pizza

It all started as a little joke.

David Doochin June 22, 2016

The Drone Killing Insect Pests on Farms In Japan

Meet Agri Drone.

Atlas Obscura June 22, 2016

9 Essential Stops on an Entomologist’s Dream Vacation

Nine locations where bug lovers can while away the hours marveling at the world's smaller citizens.

Meg Neal June 22, 2016

Deinacrida heteracantha, type of cricket

Enormous Bugs and Where to Avoid Them

Meet the giants of the insect world.

Anika Burgess June 22, 2016

Aaron Rodriques

The Bronx Bug Whisperer and His Traveling Insect Zoo

Can insects and humans get to know each other?

Atlas Obscura June 22, 2016

A Famous Edible Bug Market in Beijing Is Closing

Neighbors complained.

Erik Shilling June 21, 2016

Insect-themed amusement park

Mushi Mushi Land

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.