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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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Alabama’s warm, humid climate supports one of the most diverse wasp populations in the Southeast, and most homeowners can only name two or three of them before running out of words.
New York’s ponds, forest gorges, and remote northern bogs support one of the richest dragonfly faunas in the northeastern United States.
Wisconsin is home to more than 50 species of mosquitoes, yet only a handful bite people often enough to matter or carry diseases serious enough to worry about.
Step outside on a warm Arizona evening and flip on a porch light, and within minutes you may have a dozen moths circling the bulb.
Short summers, cold winters, and boggy northern terrain don’t sound like ideal butterfly territory, yet butterflies in Maine make up one of the most surprising insect communities in New England.
Not every fly buzzing around a Delaware backyard is the same insect wearing a different disguise.
Hawaii is home to only one group of truly native bees, yet it also hosts a growing cast of introduced species that arrived with human settlement.
Coleoptera, the beetle order, makes up roughly a quarter of all known animal species on Earth, and Connecticut’s mix of forests, wetlands, farmland, and suburban yards supports a striking share of that diversity.
Step onto a trail in the Sandia Mountains or walk through a Mesilla Valley garden in early summer, and there’s a decent chance you’ll cross paths with more caterpillars than butterflies.
Utah’s varied terrain, from the Wasatch Front’s suburban yards to the red-rock deserts of the south, gives rise to a surprisingly diverse cast of wasps.
Minnesota’s nickname for the mosquito isn’t much of a joke to anyone who has spent a June evening on a dock or a July afternoon weeding a garden bed.
Flip on a porch light on a warm June evening in the Poconos, and something the size of a small bird might land right beside it.
A houseplant that looked healthy last week can suddenly show sticky leaves, tiny webs, or a dusting of white fluff along its stems.
Texas hosts an outsized share of North America’s dragonflies, and a handful of species show up so often near ponds, lakes, and slow rivers that they’ve become familiar faces to anyone who spends time outdoors.
Illinois is home to more than 50 documented mosquito species, according to the Illinois Natural History Survey, but only a handful account for nearly every bite reported across the state’s yards, parks, and floodplains.
A single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes in a day, which makes these aerial hunters some of the hardest-working predators along California’s waterways.
Most New Jersey homeowners lump every stinging insect into one mental category, but the types of wasps in New Jersey found buzzing around a backyard barbecue or a woodpile are far more varied than that.
Colorado is home to a surprising number of mosquitoes, but only a small handful actually matter for backyard comfort and public health.
Indiana is home to an estimated 55 documented mosquito species, yet Purdue University entomologists note that only a fraction of them actually matter for backyard comfort or public health.
Not every beetle crawling across a Utah trail or turning up in a woodpile is a garden villain.
