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Ladybug
Most people picture the same red shell and black dots, but the beetle hiding behind that familiar image comes in…
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Beetle
One in four animal species on Earth belongs to a single insect order, and scientists still cannot fully explain how…
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Butterfly
From carnivorous species that hunt living insects to adults that physically cannot eat, butterflies hide some genuinely bizarre secrets beneath…
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Caterpillar
Before a caterpillar earns its wings, it embarks on one of nature's most bizarre transformations, dissolving much of its own…
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Glowworm
Despite the name, glowworms are neither worms nor a single species, and the eerie light they produce serves purposes far…
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Cockroach
They survived asteroid impacts, ice ages, and mass extinctions that wiped out countless other species, yet one of their strangest…
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Stag Beetle
The oldest known fossil of the stag beetle dates back to the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 150 to 160 million…
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Dragonfly
Ancient, armored, and clocking speeds that rival a sprinting human, these aerial hunters have ruled the skies for over 300…
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Puss Moth
The puss moth is a large moth with a soft, striped, and fluffy coat that makes it look like a…
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Ant
A single colony of one ant species stretches thousands of miles, another species exists on just two city blocks in…
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Earwig
“No in-ear problems with the Earwig!” Earwigs are nocturnal insects that can be identified by the large pair of pincers…
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Hercules Beetle
“The Hercules Beetle is the world’s longest beetle!” The Hercules beetle is one of the world’s largest insects, and it…
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Purple Emperor Butterfly
The Purple Emperor is a large butterfly whose males have areas of iridescent purple on their wings. The larger females…
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Pond Skater
The pond skater, also known as a water strider, lives its entire life on or around water. But unlike many…
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Grasshopper
One of earth's oldest insect families has spent 250 million years perfecting some truly surprising survival tricks, from transferring plant…
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Fly
Humans swat them, curse them, and blame them for spreading disease, yet these buzzing insects quietly hold entire ecosystems together…
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Insects
With an estimated 30 million species thriving in nearly every corner of the planet, the world's most abundant animals live…
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Asian Giant Hornet
The Asian giant hornet has reached fame thanks to its nickname online, the “murder hornet.” While the species’ stings can…
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Honey bees
Inside a single colony of 80,000 bees, queens, workers, and drones play out a social drama so intricate it rivals…
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Scorpion
With venom that can kill, a glow that lights up under ultraviolet light, and ancestors that once ruled the seas,…