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a green insect (left) the same insect, but it has changed to pink (right)
Insects

Green insect turns a puzzling shade of hot pink

By Nidhi Sharma

A close-up photograph of a Halobates, an ocean water strider, resting on the surface of the water. The insect has a long, slender dark body and very thin, wire-like legs that create slight indentations on the water's surface tension. Its reflection is visible on the surface, and the background is a soft, out-of-focus light blue and white.
Evolution

Do any bugs live in the ocean? Short answer: Not really.

By Andrew Coletti

An Ixodes tick (left). An Asian tiger mosquito. (right)
Insects

What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

Close-up of aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood from human skin, transmitting dangerous diseases like dengue fever, zika virus, and chikungunya, Chumphon in thailand.
Insects

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

By Andrew Paul

a swarm of locusts in the sky
Insects

Locust swarms may meet their match in protein-enriched crops

By Nidhi Sharma

a large dark millipede
Wildlife

These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida

By Margherita Bassi

3D scan cross-section of an ant
Insects

Weak ants conquered Earth using sheer numbers

By Andrew Paul

Close-up of a dead mosquito lying on its back on a flat surface, its legs curled upward and abdomen visibly red with ingested blood, with wings partially extended and fine hairs on its limbs catching the light.
Diseases

This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of three wasps
Renewables

Radioactive wasp nest found at former nuclear weapons site

By Andrew Paul

Fuzzy beetle on red flower
Insects

Most bugs can’t see red—but these beetles can

By Andrew Paul

Venus fly trap wasp encased in amber
Evolution

This ancient ‘Venus fly-trap’ wasp used its butt to kill

By Andrew Paul

Seized Japanese beetles in containers
Insects

Smugglers try to disguise giant beetles as Japanese snacks, unsuccessfully

By Andrew Paul

Timelapse image of springtail jumping backwards
Insects

Watch the world’s fastest backflipping bug

By Andrew Paul

Chrysalis attached to tree branch with silk
Animals

Butterflies anchor cocoons with silk Velcro and seat-belts

By Andrew Paul

a bee kicks away an ant
Animals

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

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