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Delve into the fascinating world of insects — the most diverse group of animals on Earth, covering beetles, butterflies, ants, bees, and thousands of other six-legged creatures and their behaviors, habitats, and roles in ecosystems.
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About 40% of all known insects are beetles, yet some of the most remarkable types of beetles in Virginia never see daylight.
A single porch light in Georgia can pull in dozens of moth species in one summer night, yet most people never look closely at what lands on the siding.
Walk under a live oak in Baton Rouge during April and you might get an unpleasant surprise falling onto your shoulder.
Most people can name two bees, the honey bee and the bumble bee, yet the types of bees in Virginia run far past that pair.
Indiana sits at a crossroads of prairie, forest, and wetland habitat, and that mix supports a surprising range of butterflies for a Midwestern state.
Most Oklahomans will never meet most of the state’s moths.
Types of beetles in Massachusetts include everyday garden pests and some of the rarest insects in the Northeast.
Arkansas packs four distinct landscapes into one state — the rocky Ozark Plateau, the rugged Ouachita Mountains, the flat Mississippi River Lowlands, and the edge of the Gulf Coastal Plain.
The largest native insect in Hawaii is a moth, and it is rarer than most people realize.
Butterflies in Minnesota include one species that once had over half its historic range in the state and has had no confirmed sighting here since 2008 at the latest.
Texas gardeners tend to lump every spotted beetle they see into one category, but the state actually hosts a surprising mix of lady beetle species, each with its own color pattern, diet, and habitat preference.
Step onto almost any California patio in late summer and a thin, busy line of ants is probably already crossing it.
Walk through a Maryland backyard in late spring and you’re almost guaranteed to find a caterpillar munching on something, whether it’s a tomato plant, an oak leaf, or a patch of milkweed.
Some of the types of beetles in Missouri look like candy, and one of them is a conservation success story still being written.
Some of the most common types of beetles in North Carolina act less like beetles and more like tiny predators.
The types of moths in South Carolina range from palm-sized silk moths to specks that fit on a fingernail.
Swat one mosquito in a Michigan backyard and there’s a good chance a different species will land on your arm five minutes later.
Kansas sits where tallgrass prairie meets eastern woodland and shortgrass plains, and that overlap gives the state an unusually deep bench of butterflies.
Plenty of the types of flies in Utah never bite anyone.
Missouri’s humid summers and mixed woodland-prairie landscape support an unusually wide range of wasps, from black-and-yellow yellowjackets raiding picnic tables to solitary hunters that never sting a person in their entire lives.
