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Honeybees are fascinating creatures for a number of reasons: their incredible work ethic, the sugary sweet syrup they produce and their intricate social structure. But another reason is that honeybees...
As the April sun rises on a pile of firewood, something royal stirs inside. This wasp queen is one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the...
The human brain is one of the most sophisticated organs in the world, a supercomputer made of billions of neurons that processes and controls all of our senses, thoughts, and...
What’s the worst bug on the planet? You might vote for the horsefly or perhaps the wasp, but for many people, the worst offender is by far the mosquito. The...
The world’s largest orchid grows several meters tall. The tiniest is practically invisible. Some bloom high up in trees, while others live underground. All in, there are around 28,000 species...
Welcome to It Hurts! One of these creatures is thought to possess the world’s most painful insect sting. If you were to guess, would it be: the ant that forages...
It’s June, just after a heavy rainfall, and the sky is filling with creatures we wouldn’t normally expect to find there. At first glance, this might be a disturbing sight....
If insects suddenly morphed into large beings, and decided to wage war on us, there’s no doubt that humans would lose. We’d simply be crushed by their sheer numbers. There...
e[Why don’t we eat bugs?] For centuries, people have consumed bugs, everything from beetles to caterpillars, locusts, grasshoppers, termites, and dragonflies. The practice even has a name: entomophagy. Early hunter-gatherers...
This is Mabel. Mabel is an aphid, a small insect in the same order as cicadas, stink bugs, and bed bugs. All these bugs pierce their prey and suck out...
