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Insect design integrated with microchip. (Getty Images / Chayanan)

Cyborg bugs are here: Are they ethical?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Candiru (Vandellia cirrhosa), also known as cañero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish, is a species of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae native to the Amazon Basin. (Jorge Garcia/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Nature’s strangest real life vampires

Matthew Rozsa
A recall notice is posted next to Boar's Head meats that are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Boar's Head plant filled with violations

Joy Saha
A large group of the invasive lanternfly on a tree of heaven in Pennsylvania, USA. (Getty Images/Michael J Romano)

Climate change bolsters invasive species

Matthew Rozsa
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Brood XIX, known as the Great Southern Brood, cicadas hold onto blades of grass on the campus of the University of North Carolina on May 1, 2024 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

A trillion cicadas will emerge soon

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco - Grist
(STR/AFP Photo/China OUT/Getty Images)

Give fireflies the space to thrive

Rae Hodge
Monarch Butterflies (Getty Images/ HegedusPeter/500px)

Monarch butterfly populations crashing

Matthew Rozsa
A Matabele ant tends to the wound of a fellow ant whose legs were bitten off in a fight with termites. (Erik Frank/University of Wuerzburg)

Putting the "ant" in antibiotics

Rae Hodge
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Tobacco hornworm caterpillar with wasp pupae on back (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Parasites: Life's greatest success story

Troy Farah
Honey Bees (Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Honey bees may be altruistic

Matthew Rozsa
Firefly (Getty Images/Jeremy_Hogan)

Can we save fireflies from extinction?

Pamela Appea
Fruit fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on a leaf (Getty Images/janeff)

Scientists turn on "virgin birth" in fly

Nicole Karlis
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Macro photo of worker bee on honeycomb (Getty Images/Aleksandr Rybalko)

Bees, wasps and hexagonal architecture

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of yellow crazy ant on green leaf (Getty Images/afe207)

Crazy ants with crazier genetics

Pamela Appea
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Mosquitos bringing malaria north

Mary Katherine Wildeman - Grist
Wasp in flight (Getty Images/Renaud Visage)

Wasps are smart, mean and misunderstood

Matthew Rozsa
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Closeup of a bunch of dead fruit flies (stockstudioX via Getty Images)

How dead fruit flies harm living ones

Christi Gendron - The Conversation
Gorteria diffusa, aka the Beetle Daisy or Katoog (Cat Eye) (Dwergenpaartje/Wiki Commons)

Why a daisy evolved to look like a fly

Troy Farah
An insect in a yellow plastic spoon. (Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images)

The case for persuading kids to eat bugs

Gaëlle Pantin-Sohier, Valérie Hémar-Nicolas, Céline Gallen - The Conversation
"The Last of Us" (HBO)

"Last of Us" fungus is used to kill bugs

Troy Farah
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A bumblebee lands on a Stonecrop flower (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

A butterfly effect on our food system

Stuart Reynolds - The Conversation
Monarch Butterfly (Getty Images/Claude LeTien)

75% of insects at risk

Brett Marsh - Grist
Bee on a vibrant orange flower (Getty Images/Vicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond Photography)

Bees live half as long as they used to

Matthew Rozsa
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Climate change ups the pressure on bees

Jennie L. Durant - The Conversation
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