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

Crazy ants with crazier genetics

Pamela Appea
Honey bees in a swarm (Getty Images/Andreas Häuslbetz)

How insect swarms can change the weather

Troy Farah
Springtime home gardening, rake, shovel, trowel, gloves, and seed packet envelopes in a soil sifter (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

4 steps to an (almost) bug-less garden

Nadia Hassani - Food52
FILE--This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a side view of a recently emerged adult female western glacier stonefly from below Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Mont. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, proposed adding the western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly to the government's list of threatened species.(Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File) (Joe Giersch/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

Save the insects, save ourselves

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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How do fireflies glow and why

Clyde Sorenson - The Conversation
A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

Bees: Bugs you can't live without

Milicent Cranor - WhoWhatWhy
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Let's all eat more insects!

Gary M. Kramer
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Joanna Rothkopf
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We ate bugs

Lindsay Abrams, Joanna Rothkopf
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Preview our first podcast

Lindsay Abrams
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The truth about crickets

Lindsay Abrams
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Behold the food of the future

Joanna Rothkopf
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How science reinvented meat

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Eat more bugs!

Lindsay Abrams
The olinguito (<em>Bassaricyon neblina</em>) (Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams
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Associated Press
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