Insects

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

Still image from: All About Insects

Still image from: Amazing Honeybee Body Parts!

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

Honeycomb covered in bees. Caption: As soon as the forager bee returns to its hive,

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: Bess Beetles Do What?

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

Small insect on the tip of a leaf. Caption: Ticks are parasites of birds and mammals.

Still image from: Bubble Guppies: Bug's Day Out

Still image from: Bug Superpowers!

Still image from: Bugs of the Caves!

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

Still image from: Busy Bees! Learn About Bees

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

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

Still image from: Deep Look: A Flea's Fantastic Jump Takes More Than Muscle

Still image from: Deep Look: A Tsetse Fly Births One Enormous Milk-Fed Baby

Still image from: Deep Look: Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in a Sticky Situation

Still image from: Deep Look: Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear

Still image from: Deep Look: Here’s How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter

A honey bee sucks nectar from a flower.

Still image from: Deep Look: How Lice Turn Your Hair Into Their Jungle Gym

Still image from: Deep Look: Kidnapper Ants Steal Other Ants' Babies and Brainwash Them

Still image from: Deep Look: Meeting a Wormlion Is the Pits

Still image from: Deep Look: Samurai Wasps Say Smell Ya Later, Stink Bugs

Still image from: Deep Look: Sharpshooter Insects’ Sexy Vibrations Spell Trouble in the Vineyard

Still image from: Deep Look: The Curious Webspinner Insect Knits a Cozy Home

Still image from: Deep Look: These Giant Leaf Insects Will Sway Your Heart

Still image from: Deep Look: These Hairworms Eat a Cricket Alive and Control Its Mind

Still image from: Deep Look: This Bee Gets Punched by Flowers for Your Ice Cream

Still image from: Deep Look: This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Still image from: Deep Look: This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Relationship

Still image from: Deep Look: Walking Sticks Stop, Drop and Clone To Survive

Still image from: Deep Look: Watch Bed Bugs Get Stopped in Their Tracks

Still image from: Deep Look: Why Crickets Just Won't Shut Up

Still image from: Deep Look: You Wish You Had Mites Like This Hissing Cockroach

Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: Cicada Mania

Still image from: Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate

Lion running with prey in the background. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Hi! Fly Guy

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

Still image from: How Animals Move

Still image from: How Flowers Attract Insects

Still image from: How to Draw a Monarch Butterfly Real Easy

Micros images of an insect.

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

Still image from: In Our Nature: Extreme Senses

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

Still image from: Insect Pollinators

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Lyme Disease

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: The Fastest Animals Are Way Faster Than You Think

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.

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

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

Still image from: Marvie Makes a Movie

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,

Still image from: Museum Access: The Wild Center

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?

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,

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.

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.

People outside, standing and looking at something being held by one of them. Caption: and look very carefully just beneath the wing,

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.

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

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

Still image from: Spot on Science: Monarchs, Migration, and Milkweed

Still image from: Spot on Science: Water Bugs and Water Quality

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

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

Still image from: The Amazing Yucca Moth

Still image from: The Amazing Yucca Moth (Spanish)

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

Still image from: The Fly Guys Song

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

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Blattodea--Roaches

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Coleoptera--Beetles

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Collembola--Springtails

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Dermaptera--Earwigs

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Diptera--True Flies

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Embiidina--Webspinners

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Ephemeroptera--Mayflies

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Hemiptera--True Bugs & Relatives

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Hymenoptera--Bees, Ants, and Wasps

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Isoptera--Termites

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Mantodea--Mantids

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Mecoptera--Scorpionflies

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Neuropteroids--Lacewings & Relatives

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Odonata--Dragonflies

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Orthoptera--Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Phasmatodea--Walking Sticks

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Phthiraptera--Lice

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Siphonaptera--Fleas

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Thysanura--Silverfish

Still image from: The Insect Orders: Order Trichoptera--Caddisflies

Cartoon character swinging a net while surrounded by butterflies. Caption: Oh! I can't see! Get your hands off! Aah!

Magic school bus in miniature size in a pack of ants on the ground. Caption: (Ralphie) Giant potato chip being foraged dead ahead!

Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of bees. Caption: They thought we were bees from their hive

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Bug Hunt and Bottle Ecosystem

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Bug Hunt and Bottle Ecosystem (Spanish)

Photo of bees near an artificial beehive.

A beekeeper and a scientist fully geared in protective suits move toward a bee rearing station.

Still image from: The Very Impatient Caterpillar

Still image from: The Very Impatient Caterpillar (Spanish)

Six bees. Caption: Is it possible that the animals communicate amongst themselves?

A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.

Illustration of a red, yellow, black and white butterfly. Caption: (music) Butterfly wings head for the sky

Bee gathering nectar from a flower. Spanish captions.

A bee gathering nectar from a flower. Caption: A honeybee is an insect.

A black and yellow butterfly with orange spots feeding from a light orange flower. Caption: a caterpillar turning into a butterfly --

A tadpole swimming in murky water. Caption: Their lifelong competitors take weeks to transform into frogs.

Closeup of ants swarming over a beetle. Caption: And they also kill each other in battles over turf.

Ants crawling on the ground. Caption: (Greene) One thing we're learning more and more about ant colonies

Closeup of a black and yellow insect with stripes on the thorax. Caption: finds a European honeybee colony and marks its location

Cartoon of an ant carrying a large piece of food.

Cartoon of A bee flying in a house.

Cartoon of a butterfly flying in flowers.

Cartoon of a caterpillar on a grape vine.

Cartoon of a flying cicada.

Cartoon of a dragon fly flying over a pond.

Cartoon of a fly landing on a plate of leftover food.

Cartoon of a grasshopper in dry grass.

Cartoon of a ladybug flying among plants.

Cartoon of a flying mosquito.