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Insects

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A caterpillar curled in a circle, mostly encased in a protective covering. Caption: Then the caterpillar goes to sleep.

Close up on human skin with small hairs scattered. A mosquito has landed on the skin and blood has spilled around the mosquito's feet. Text reads, “A World Without…Mosquitoes.”

Standing outside are two women; one is wearing butterfly wings and a headband with pink antennas, while the other holds a camera.

Still image from: All the Answers: Bicycles, Butterflies, Meditation

Teacher uses a hair clip attached to her arm to hold a ball of yellow clay, demonstrating how a bee carries pollen.

Aerial view of mostly bare light brown land with low lying trees. Caption: Termites are extremely territorial

Still image from: Animal DNA: Bees, Wasps, and Ants

Still image from: Animal DNA: Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles

Illustration of a large ant with two green leaves over it and a person standing in front of it. Spanish captions.

Butterfly on pink flowers with green foliage. Spanish captions.

An illustrated ladybug in flowers. Spanish captions.

A close up of an ant. Caption: Attached to the thorax are the ant's six legs.

Several ants, two carrying larvae. Caption: (narrator) Then the ants build a protective wall across the entrance.

Close up of a cockroach head and body. Caption: A bunch of 'em -- American cockroaches.

Hand holding a magnifying glass pointing to something on the ground. Caption: Do you see it?

Spider with long narrow legs and a small narrow body at the center of a delicate spider web. Caption: Spiders are arachnids.

Close up of honeybees. Caption: which give the honeybee over 12,000 views all at once.

Still image from: Bees and Wasps for Kids

Two women sitting at a desk look at us with curiosity. Caption reads: “Facebook Question: Sheila, Indianapolis.”

A butterfly lodging on a grass. Spanish Caption: un puntito aqui y otro puntito aca.

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Figs Eat Wasps Before You Eat the Fig

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Ocean Bug That Can't Get Wet

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Strange Thing That Turns Grasshoppers Into Locusts

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: This Lizard Cures Lyme Disease (in Ticks)

Still image from: Bombardier Beetles for Kids

Book cover shows an illustration of two mermaids from Bubble Guppies playing with a dog with a fishtail as several insects look on. Text reads, “Leap Frog Get Ready to Read Series. Nickelodeon Bubble Guppies. Bug’s Day Out.”

Two arachnids lying on their backs; one has a small abdomen and the other a large abdomen, displaying the bug’s ability to expand its body when it eats.

Two women wearing headlamps walk out of a dark cave onto mossy rocks.

Title text reads, “Bugs!” against a black background.

Illustration of bare feet on the ground with ladybugs and plants. Caption: I want to see bugs.

Person pulls a slab of honeycomb out of a bee hive as several bees buzz nearby.

Title text reads, “Butterflies," against a bakcground that shows the dark silhouette of a butterfly.

A close up of a single bee on a honeycomb. Caption: Connected to the thorax are wings.

Still image from: Butterflies for Kids

A close up of a yellow and black butterfly on a flower. Caption: Have you seen them fly past you,

Still image from: Carolina Snaps: Honeybee Farm (Queen Bee)

Microscopic image of a pale white flea with a long body and tail.

Closeup on the face of a Tsetse fly with red eyes, pale body and an elongated appendage extending out from a black bulb at the bottom of its head.

Closeup of a sundew plant made up of long yellowish leaves and red tentacles, each with a sticky gland at the tip.

Closeup on a glasswing butterfly perched on a fingertip. It has a black body with white stripes, and transparent webbed wings with opaque, dark brown borders tinted with orange.

Cyberchase cartoon. A sheet of paper with several illustrations that are labeled Browns. Illustrations include dirt, straw, paper, and leaves.

A honey bee sucks nectar from a flower.

Microscopic photo of a louse crawling along a single strand of hair.

Closeup of red ants crawling across the dirt, each carrying a small white object.

Closeup of a sand pit with a slight depression. A small shiny oval object is visible in the center.

Closeup of a wasp with a black body, short antennas and transparent wings.

Man wearing headphones points a laser at a sharpshooter insect attached to a grapevine.

Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.

Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.

Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.

Closeup of a barely visible bee enveloped in a blurry light brown object.

Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.

Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.

Side view closeup of a hissing cockroach showing its shiny black body covered in hair-like bristles, pale abdomen, and horns.

Still image from: Don't Step on the Spider

Dark room with a wreath on the wall that is dimly lit with string lights weaved inside of it.

Emily Graslie sits in front of a bookcase and looks at us while she talks.

Lion running with prey in the background. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Hey Duggee: The Honey Badge

Color illustration of a boy wearing full fishing gear, dragging a red wagon that contains a jar with holes in the lids and bird cage behind him.

Close up of bees on a honeycomb. Caption: As the liquid nectar dries, it thickens and changes

White beetle grub burrows into the earth.

White title text reads, "Smell," against a black background.

Aerial closeup of handing using a black pencil to sketch a butterfly with outstretched wings on white paper.

Micros images of an insect.

A diagram shows illustrations of butterflies, wasps, bees, and caterpillars.

View of the University of California, Berkeley’s Football stadium. Text reads, “Berkeley, California.”

A butterfly emerging from the cocoon. Caption: This process is called "metamorphosis."

Aerial view of a honey bee with two blue arrows connected at one end pointing towards each wing.

Digital illustration. Macro depiction of a tick crawling on a cratered beige surface. Long, hair-like extensions surround it.

Woman sits in a room with a space mural and a bookcase behind her. There’s an image of a spring coil next to her.

Different math equations and graphs are drawn, with a butterfly as the backdrop.

Seven different butterflies, where four are placed at the corners facing the butterfly at the center and two at either side of the central butterfly.

A world map illustrates the amount of bug species consumed, on a scale from 0 to 300 plus.

Still image from: JoJo & Gran Gran: It's Time to Build a Bug Hotel

Still image from: JoJo & Gran Gran: It's Time to Find a Butterfly

A butterfly flying in the sky.

Close up of a black insect with translucent black wings and black antenna. Caption: our killer can locate her victims remotely.

Still image from: Killer Bees for Kids

Illustration of an animal with a long neck and dinosaur-like head emerging from the water. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Lab Six: Insects (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Insects II (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: The Queen and the Drone (Spanish)

Still image from: Life of a Butterfly in Under 4 Minutes

Still image from: Living St. Louis: Charles Henry Turner's Study of Bees

Animated puppet, Marvie smiles with her mouth open wide in a child's colorful bedroom. Caption. It's called "The Flight of the Lady Bug."

Still image from: Metamorphosis for Kids

Microscopic view of roughly oval shaped organisms. Caption: We've found what these stream insects feed on -- diatoms.

Magnified view of thin, tangled threads. Caption: a fungus composed of a tangled mass of threads

closeup of beige and brown insects in wood. Caption: They'll soon reduce this log to frass.

Close up of a monarch butterfly feeding from a purple flower. Spanish captions.

Close up of a very large brown moth with a large spot on each of its four wings and dark dots on the tip of two of them. Caption: And that led into studying bat-moth interactions,

Aerial view of a large pond behind a complex of red brick buildings. A small white tent is to the right of the buildings, and a large array of solar panels is to the left of the buildings. Evergreen trees surround it all.

Illustration of two people in a basket passing by tree roots. Caption: You're just passing through the root level.

Illustration of three insects sitting on a ceiling beam, looking down on a fourth insect who is talking to two children in bed. Caption: (Suzie) Do you know the story of the princess dragonfly?

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Ants

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Beetles

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Bumble Bees

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Butterflies

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Caterpillars

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Dragonflies

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Grasshoppers

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Honeybees

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Ladybirds

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Millipedes

Still image from: My Pet and Me: Teeny Tiny Creatures--Moths

Stacks of man-made box hives with bees swarming them. Caption: Now, they prepare to unload their shipments of livestock--

Two people with tools in their hands in a desert-like setting, digging in a mound of earth. Caption: Searching for these 112 to 98 million-year-old remains,

Close-up of a golden dragonfly holding onto a stem amid a backdrop of green leaves.

Ants climbing on the shoots of grass.

A butterfly with its wing spread out and sitting on a flower.

A locust chews on a shoot of grass.

Close-up of a red-brownish Armored Ground Cricket creeping over the edge of a piece of wood.

Black centipede with bright orange legs crawls down a roughly textured tree branch.

Swarm of locusts fills the frame, flying against a bright blue sky.

Brown and black millipede with small yellow legs crawls on the underside of a branch.

Bright green praying mantis with its arms up, sitting among the leaves of a plant.

Dozens of flying termites lying on the ground, scattered among disembodied termite wings.

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Caddisflies

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: City Parks

Paul Meisel holds up his book called "My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis." On the cover, a green praying mantis perches on the stem of a bright red, spiky flower, looking up towards a butterfly flying above.

Closeup of a tick on a leaf. Lyme Disease. Caption: Ticks are carriers of Lyme disease.

Small light and dark brown butterfly with wings closed sitting on a leaf. Caption: (Sally) Some of these butterflies are challenging--

Close up circuitry. Penny included for scale. Circuitry is smaller than the penny. Caption: at the University of Maryland are building microrobots,

Monarch butterflies on foliage. Caption: In monarchs, they study a parasite.

A light blue and white stripped caterpillar on a person's finger. Caption: (male) This little guy can grip, hold, and move.

Black butterflies with orange and white wings on a bright orange flower. Caption: (narrator) The colors signal to birds, "Don't eat me, I'm toxic."

Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species

Two insects on a plant. Caption: insects, usually males, have some signature moves:

A line of ants carrying pieces of leaf larger than their bodies. Caption: leafcutter ants maintain a complex society.

Mosquito on a person's skin. Caption: it would scare them away.

Bees in a hive. They have identifying chips glued to their back. One bee is larger than the rest and has bright colored glue affixing the chip. Caption: (male) The queen is well-known, but doesn’t run the show.

Small mechanical objects with wings. Caption: And so began the creation of the Robobee,

A person in a white suit, hat with mesh face covering, and gloves that come past the forearm. Caption: Lets put the gloves on to finish off the complete outfit.

Person holding a dragonfly between their fingers. Caption: (narrator) It's not easy to catch a dragonfly.

A black caterpillar with orange stripes and hair crawling on a tree branch. Caption: Insects live in different habitats

Yellow insects with black markings on their back in the dirt. Spanish captions.

Butterfly lays the egg, egg hatches to larva, larva changes into a pupa, pupa turns into a butterfly. Caption: They are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.

Butterfly lays the egg, egg hatches to larva, larva changes into a pupa, pupa turns into a butterfly. Spanish captions.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Busy Bees

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Craft an Insect

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Fireflies--Nature's Baffling Blinkers

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How a Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Do Ants Find Food?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Inspect an Insect

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Like Fruit? Thank a Bee!

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Meet 3 Giant Insects

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Super Strong Dragonflies

An animation of a mosquito biting a hand. On screen text, full belly, partial blood me. Caption: and she can lay the next generation of blood suckers.

Person shaking seeds out of the head of a plant into their hand. Caption: Even the smallest seed contains everything needed to grow

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Carpenter Bee

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Polyphemus Moth Cocoon

Person in a white coat working in a science lab. Caption: Researchers are making genetically modified silkworms.

Digital illustration of a colored map of North America. 4 white lines converge to form an arrow pointing a southern Mexico. Title card reads, "Monarch east fall migration."

Extreme closeup of a hand holding up a black water bug.

Still image from: Stink Bugs for Kids

Still image from: Super Animals: Chatty Creatures

Still image from: Super Animals: Enduring Champs

Still image from: Super Animals: Mega Movers

Still image from: Super Animals: Unique Movers

Still image from: Super Animals: Unsung Heroes

Still image from: Super Animals: Weird Wonders

An ant, Anochetus levaillanti. Caption: some have tons of hair; some have big spines.

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2013)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2119)

Translucent white termites in the dirt. Caption: Termites are social insects,

We look down at the edge of a tan tent that is secured in the sand.

Woman smiles up at us from beneath a bucket hat as she sits with her legs wrapped together in white fabric.

Cartoon of an ant. Caption: The ant had never heard such joyful noise.

Partially dissected body of an ant. Crop, ileum, rectum, mid gut, venom gland. Caption: Alongside that is where the venom gland sits.

Giant walking stick pinned to a board for display. Caption: This one's from Malaysia.

Closeup of the bottom side of a winged insect's body. Caption: All insects are roughly made up of the same sections --

Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana

Person holding a grasshopper. Melanoplus Differentialis. Caption: And this is a differential grasshopper,

Close up of insects pinned to a board. They have green stripes down their backs. Caption: This is the largest collection at the museum.

Closeup of the front half of an ant. Camponotus nigriceps. Caption: They bore through wood, but don't eat it.

Closeup of a small beetle crawling on the edge of a leaf underwater. Caption: (Crystal) Riffle beetles live underwater

Four men wear black suits, gold paper crowns, and bug eyeglasses as they sing together. Text reads, "The Fly Guys Song."

People using laser pointers to mock-swordfight. Spanish captions.

On a green leaf sits an oval-shaped bug with shiny black wings with a thick white stripe in the middle, a golden yellow head with a black circle in the middle, and thick black antennae.

Two women look at us, standing against a forested backdrop surrounded by sunny green plants.

Two women sit across from each other and talk at a picnic table in a forest area with sun-dappled trees and plants.

Two women wearing jeans and black jackets squat down on the ground, searching for something amidst rocks and stones, grasses, and other plants.

Woman looks at us as she speaks, crouched down outside next to a green bucket full of vegetable and other food scraps.

View from the inside of a makeshift white-fabric tent, under which two women are sitting on the ground.

Mayflies at different stages of development cling to a white surface, resembling flecks of soil and other organic matter.

Brown cicada blending into the bark of a thin tree trunk.

Brown leaf-cutter ant crawling up over the top edge of a green leaf.

Two women, one blonde-haired and the other brown-haired, stand in front of a tree in a forest.

Two moths, one gray and the other speckled white-and-black, snack on a plate of cut-up honeydew, starfruit, and melons, which are also covered in small fruit flies.

Close-up of a green praying mantis devouring a cricket from the middle of a yellow flower, whose petals surround them.

Brown-haired woman wearing a black jacket speaks to us while standing in a park near recreational pull-up bars.

Close-up of a brown-and-white segmented insect crawling on human skin. Caption reads: "Lacewing larva biting Kristie's finger."

Close-up of a thick-bodied dragonfly perched on the finger of the show host.

Brown and tan grasshopper with yellow antennae perches on top of a rough red rock.

Two women sit on a park bench in front of a mulched area with trees. The blonde-haired woman speaks to us while the brown-haired one looks at her and listens.