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4 Types of Ants with Wings You Might Spot This Summer
On a warm, still evening in midsummer, ants that look nothing like the ones crossing your patio suddenly take to the air in clouds.
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Category: Insects
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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5 Types of Dragonflies in Australia and How to Identify Them
Working out the different types of dragonflies in Australia gets tricky fast, because so many species share the same blue-and-black colour schemes and the same muddy dams and creek lines.
25 Types of Dragonflies in Canada: Darners, Skimmers, and Clubtails
Dragonflies have patrolled wetlands for roughly 300 million years, long before birds or even flowering plants existed, and Canada’s lakes, bogs, and rivers still host a remarkable share of that lineage today.
6 Types of Ants for Ant Farms and What Makes Each One Worth Keeping
Picking from the many types of ants for ant farms is harder than it looks, because a species that thrives in one keeper’s setup can struggle badly in another’s.
3 Types of Insects That Are Not Poisonous You Probably See Every Day
Most people flinch first and ask questions later when an insect lands on their arm or skitters across the porch.
16 Common Butterflies in Canada and How to Identify Them
A butterfly that freezes solid every winter and thaws out alive each spring sounds like fiction, but it’s simply how the mourning cloak survives a Canadian winter.
6 Types of Dragonflies in Europe: From Hawkers to the Emperor Dragonfly
Across Europe’s canals, fens and slow-moving rivers, dragonflies are often the clearest sign that a wetland is doing well.
26 Types of Caterpillars in North America: A Field Guide to Identification
North America is home to thousands of caterpillar species, and learning the common types of caterpillars in North America is the fastest way to tell a garden pest from a future monarch butterfly.
16 Insects That Start With E, From Earwigs to Eastern Tiger Swallowtails
Insects that start with E form a bigger group than most people expect.
Different Types of Bees in Ohio: From Honey Bees to Rare Bumble Bees
Ohio is home to approximately 500 native bee species, yet the bee most people picture first is not one of them.
5 Insects That Start with J: From Jerusalem Crickets to Jar Flies
Insects that start with J include a cricket that is not really a cricket, a “bug” that is actually a beetle, and a “fly” that is neither.
55 Animals That Eat Grasshoppers, from Backyard Birds to Desert Predators
A single grasshopper swarm can strip a field bare in days, yet most backyards and grasslands never reach that point.
17 Types of Insects That Sting: From Honey Bees to Stinging Caterpillars
Only female insects in the order Hymenoptera can sting, because the stinger itself is a modified egg-laying tube that males never develop.
9 Insects That Start With O You Might Spot in Your Own Backyard
Few letters of the alphabet produce such an odd mix of insect life as O.
15 Different Types of Weevils and How to Identify Them
Weevils are beetles, and they belong to one of the largest animal groups on Earth.
10 Weevils in Texas: From Cotton Fields to Pantry Shelves
Texas has roughly 1,218 weevil species, according to a Texas beetle resource citing a 2017 estimate, yet most people can name only the one that wrecked cotton fields.
10 Types of Mosquitoes in the United States and How to Identify Them
Few insects inspire as much genuine fear as the mosquito, and the data backs up that reaction.
16 Insects That Look Like Bees (And How to Tell Them Apart)
Not every fuzzy, yellow-and-black insect buzzing around a flower bed is actually a bee.
24 Types of Insects in the Philippines: From Household Pests to Farm Invaders
More than 21,000 insect species are found across the Philippine archipelago, and the Philippines has some 21,000 insect species, 70 percent of which are endemic to the country.
19 Types of Grasshoppers: From Backyard Hoppers to Swarming Locusts
Step into almost any field, meadow, or roadside ditch in late summer and something will jump before you see it.
