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Photo of the Pope Leo moth with dark orange wings broken up by white bands

New moth species named for Pope Leo

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

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.

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

By Andrew Coletti

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

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.

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

a swarm of locusts in the sky

Locust swarms may meet their match in protein-enriched crops

By Nidhi Sharma

a large dark millipede

These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida

By Margherita Bassi

3D scan cross-section of an ant

Weak ants conquered Earth using sheer numbers

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.

This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of three wasps

Radioactive wasp nest found at former nuclear weapons site

Fuzzy beetle on red flower

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

Venus fly trap wasp encased in amber

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

Seized Japanese beetles in containers

Smugglers try to disguise giant beetles as Japanese snacks, unsuccessfully

Timelapse image of springtail jumping backwards

Watch the world’s fastest backflipping bug

Chrysalis attached to tree branch with silk

Butterflies anchor cocoons with silk Velcro and seat-belts

a bee kicks away an ant

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas