Insects

Get to know the pollinators and other beneficial insects who can be your allies in garden.

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Moths Are the Unsung Heroes of Pollination

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Researchers Thought These Metallic Blue Bees Were Extinct — Until They Saw Them in Florida

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Historic Deal Preserves Millions of Pollination Corridors for Monarch Butterflies

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Cicadapocalypse: What You Need to Know
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American Honeybees Just Can't Get a Break
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6 Surprising Facts About Ladybugs
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10 Wild and Crazy Facts About Jumping Spiders
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Why Do Army Ants Commit Suicide?
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Caterpillar 'Plastivores' Can Eat and Digest Plastic Bags
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When Honeybees Get Stuck in Water, They Create Their Own Waves and 'Surf' to Safety
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Why Do Fireflies Glow?
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Why Male Honeybees Try to Blind Their Queens
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Fireflies! 12 Things You Didn't Know About Lightning Bugs
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7 Facts About the Black Widow Spider
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8 Captivating Facts About Spider Silk
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5 Things to Know and Love About Dung Beetles
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California's Monarch Butterfly Population Has Declined by 99% Since the 1980s
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What Is the 'Windshield Phenomenon'?
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Researchers Find 'Alarming' Loss of Insects in Large-Scale Study in Germany
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Painted Lady Butterflies Fill the Skies Over Southern California
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Here's How We Are Killing Off the Fireflies
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Give the Gift of Roaches for Valentine's Day
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2 Reasons to Leave a Wasp Nest in Your Yard
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Why Do Bumblebees Have Stripes?
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A Dragonfly Nymph's Mouth Is the Stuff of Nightmares
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Pesticides Impair the Brain Development of Baby Bees
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Bumblebees Can Switch to 'Economy Mode' When Their Nectar Load Gets Extra Heavy
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20 Moth Species More Beautiful Than Butterflies
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3 Top-Rated Insect Repellents That Don’t Contain DEET
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How to Avoid the Bite of a Kissing Bug
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Wild Bees Are Recycling Plastic, Study Finds
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How to Stop Worrying About Cockroaches and Learn to Love Our 6-Legged Overlords
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Morgan Freeman Turns Ranch Into a Sanctuary for Bees
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Turret Spiders Build Tiny Towers for Hunting Unsuspecting Prey
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Watch a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly
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Monarch Butterflies Make a Pit Stop in Colorado
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If You're Afraid of Spiders, This Is Exactly When You Should Get Out of the House
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9 of the Most Absurd-Looking Mantis Species
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We Can Now Speak the Universal Language of Honey Bees
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Fire Ants Are Flourishing — All Thanks to Us
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A Spider's Web Is Part of Its Mind, New Research Suggests
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Why Bugs Belong in Your House
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Crickets Suspected in 'Sonic Attacks' on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba
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Rafts of Fire Ants Are Terrorizing Survivors of Hurricane Florence
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The House Centipede Is One Impressive (And Leggy) Creepy-Crawly
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Why Is This Ant Throwing Another Ant Off a Ledge?
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Poignant Short Film Will Change How You Think of Bumble Bees
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Why This Hive of Honeybees Is Doing 'The Wave'
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Please Kill Your Lawn
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13 Amazing Antics of Ants
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Fireflies Turn Dusk to Disco in Dazzling Time-Lapse Video
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Where Do Insects Go in the Winter?
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Turn Your Yard Into an Insect Migration Stop
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Asian Honeybees Sacrifice Themselves to Save the Hive From Hornets
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5 Spiders That Generate the Most Myths
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Where Do Bedbugs Come From?
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Insects Could Be Gone in a Century; Catastrophic Collapse to Ensue
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Learn From These 5 Ways Bees Work Together
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9 Peculiar Facts About Praying Mantises
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Watch These Spiders Emerge From an Egg Sac
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Butterflies Lose Their Luster if Their 'Paintbrush Genes' Aren't On
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Mosquitoes
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Cockroaches Have Distinct Personalities
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Watch a Leafcutter Bee Emerge From Its 'Bee-Rito'
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Why Are Bees Producing Blue Honey?
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Radar Picks Up Massive Butterfly Migration
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The Odd, Adorable Mystery of Hairy Spider Feet
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Watch a Caterpillar Hatch From an Egg the Size of a Pinhead
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This Rare Bumble Bee Is a 'Ghost in the Making'
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Spiders May Harness Electric Currents to Fly
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Grow Your Own Mealworms With the Hive Explorer 2.0
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Elaborate Shrine Built for Fallen Texas Cockroach
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Bumblebees Coax Pollen From Flowers With a Secret 'Knock'
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Tiny Flies Eat Braaaaaiinnns...
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Royal Wedding to Feature Bee-Friendly Flowers
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Bees Hold Dance-Offs to Make Decisions
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Viral Video Shows Ants Covering a Dead Bee in Flowers. Is This an Interspecies Funeral?
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Female Dragonflies Fake Death to Avoid Males
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Costume Designer Repairs Butterfly's Torn Wing
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How Mosquitoes Spread Microplastics
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5,000 Honeybees Strap on Tiny Backpacks in the Name of Science
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This Artist Is on a Quest to Paint 50,000 Honeybees Around the World
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Artist Creates Abstract Paintings With Fly Vomit (Video)
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How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat
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What's Not to Love About Caterpillars?
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The Moth Man of West Virginia
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Beer Garden Wasps in Britain Are Going on Boozy 'Sting-Rages'
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10 Bugs That Will Make You Squirm
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Jumping Spider Males Dance and Sing (Yes, Sing) to Woo Their Mates
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9 Incredibly Cute Arthropods
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Elderly Termites Are Sent Into Battle to Die First
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Why Do We Love Bees but Hate Wasps?
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Do You Have Flying Ants or Termites?
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The Flow Beehive Harvests Honey Without Opening Hive
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Tiny Jumping Spiders Dance Like There's No Tomorrow
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These Newly Discovered Peacock Spiders Will Change Your Mind About Arachnids
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This Gorgeous Cricket Chorus Sounds Like Humans Singing a Haunting Song
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Why Are Fireflies Disappearing?
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Roaches Love Crashing Into Walls (And That May Help Us Build a Better Robot)
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Why Do Flies Fly Toward and Land on People?
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Watch as a Bee Covered in Honey Gets a Hand From Its Fellow Bees
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Toxic Caterpillars Invade London
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Africanized Bees Found in Tennessee for First Time
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Crypt-Keeper Wasp Is a Real Head Buster
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5 Ways to Help Our Disappearing Bees
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Are Mosquitoes Becoming More Dangerous?
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Mother Nature's Pop Science Guide to Ants [Infographic]
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China Drafts Chicken Army to Fight Locusts
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World's Longest-Lived Spider Died at the Ripe Old Age of 43
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Could Bacteria From Honeybees Replace Antibiotics?
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Hawaiian Crows Return From Extinction in Wild
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Why 'Golfing' Bumblebees Are a Big Deal
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New Firefly Species Discovered in California
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This Ordinary-Looking Beetle Uses Chemical Warfare to Survive Being Eaten
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The Planthopper Nymph's Dazzling Style of Protection
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The Spectacular World of Spiny Orb-Weaver Spiders
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Is Milkweed Really the Key to Saving Monarchs?
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This Master Gardener Is Luring Monarchs to Las Vegas
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Spiders Can Hear You From Across a Room
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Hordes of Insects Migrate Overhead Each Year
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These Fireflies Flirt With Heart-Shaped Lanterns
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Photo: Spiny Devil Katydid Is Strange and Adorable (Video)
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Lanternflies: The Unicorns of the Insect World
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9 Extraordinary Facts About North America's Native Bees
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What's the Difference Between a Centipede and a Millipede?
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Why We Should Learn to Love Wasps
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4 Biggest Jumpers in the World of Insects
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Why Do Mosquito Bites Itch?
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Photos of the Very Rare Pink Katydid
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No Substitute for Bumblebees, Study Shows
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The Strange World of Insects That Mimic Other Insects
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Daddy Longlegs Ditch Their Legs to Escape Death
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Vermicompost Right in Your Garden - Make a Worm Bucket
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Bees in Peril: A Timeline
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Help Us Reach the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge!
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How This Bug Photographer Is Changing the Future for Bees
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Where Are All the Mosquitoes This Summer?
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Vermicomposting and Vermiculture: Worms, Bins and How to Get Started
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Look at These Magical Insect-Eating Sundew Plants Up Close
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Bees Have Feelings and Can Experience Optimism
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Fish-Eating Spiders Are Everywhere, Including in TreeHugger
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700+ Native Bee Species Spiraling Toward Extinction
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Bumblebees Found Using Nicotine to Self-Medicate
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Why Are Ladybugs So Colorful?
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How to Make Log Hives for Healthier Bees (Video)
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12 of the Most Interesting Snails in the World
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This Back-To-Nature Hobby Has Everyone Buzzing
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DIY Beekeeping: Download and Print a Smart Beehive Kit
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Save the Butterflies With DIY Milkweed Seed Bombs
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How to Capture a Bee Swarm
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See How a Mosquito Bites in Harrowing Close-Up Detail (Video)
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Ladybug Invasion Paints Colorado Town Red
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Super Slow-Motion Video Casts Honeybees in New Light
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Why Do We Love Ladybugs but Hate Spiders?
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Is This the Cutest Caterpillar Ever?
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Horned Dung Beetle Is World's Strongest Insect
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Hungry, Hungry Caterpillars Decimate Trees in New England
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These Femmes Fatales Reveal the Dark Side of Fireflies
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Scientists Discover Another Cause of Bee Deaths, and It's Really Bad News
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7 Wonderful Frozen Spider Webs [Photos]
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Moby Speaks for the Bees: “If the Bees Go, We’re Next.”
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The Monarch Butterfly Needs Milkweed to Survive. Here's How to Get Seeds
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Fake Caterpillars Trick Ants Into Spilling Secrets
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Ants Communicate, 'Cast Ballots' With a Kiss
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A Must-See Introduction to Beekeeping and Honey Bees (Video)
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Spiders Eat Up to 800 Million Tons of Insects a Year
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Terrifying 'Dementor' Wasp Species Named for Evil Spirits From Harry Potter
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One Big Step Closer to Synthetic Spider Silk
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Watch a Bumblebee Get Pollen From a Flower Through the Power of Buzzing (Video)
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Keeping Mason Bees in Your Fridge (And Other Ideas for Helping Wild Pollinators)
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Whiter Than White: Beetles Have Us Beat
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Giant Bat-Eating Spiders Found Everywhere Except Antarctica
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Scientists Discover New Dancing Peacock Spiders 'Skeletorus' & 'Sparklemuffin' (Video)
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The Red Bees of Brooklyn, and a Search for a Solution
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BUGS Film Explores the Wild and Wonderful World of Edible Insects
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Tokyo Diners Can't Get Enough of Insect Ramen
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Turkey's Butterfly Bounty Documented in New Report
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Watch the First 21 Days of a Bee’s Life in 60 Seconds (Video)
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Female Dragonflies Ditch Suitors by Faking Sudden Death
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Scientists Befuddled by Huge 70-Mile Wide Cloud of Butterflies, Caught on Radar
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'Hero' Ants Found to Face Death Alone to Save Their Colony
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10 Million Dollar Insect Collection Donation Demonstrates a Legacy of Love (Video)
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Young Honeybees May Be Growing Up Too Fast
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Monarch Butterfly Numbers Hit Record Lows
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Millions of Migrating Monarchs! The Tale of an Amazing Butterfly in Great Peril [Photos]
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Why Spiders Put Designs in Their Webs
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5 Tips for Photographing Butterflies
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How to Tell the Difference Between a Dragonfly and a Damselfly
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5 Facts About the Incredible (And Huge) Atlas Moth
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Ants Remember Their Position When They Need to Form Rafts
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5 Facts About Daddy Longlegs That Will Surprise You
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5 Crazy Facts About Leaf-Cutter Ants
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When Honeybees Get Surprised, They Let Out a 'Whoop'
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Meet the Cecropia Moth, the Largest Moth in North America
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Scientists Find Pesticide Residue in 75 Percent of Honey
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5 Crazy Facts About Crazy Ants
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Why Do Bees Have Pockets?
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Why Do Ladybugs Gather in Massive Swarms?
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Long Live Local Bees! Research Shows Imported Bees Are Less Likely to Thrive