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Insects

Within Science

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

White beetle grub burrows into the earth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2013)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2119)

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.

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

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.

Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of a louse, whose hairy body has an elongated abdomen, six legs resembling crab claws emerging from a short thorax, and a pointed head with antennae.

Close-up of a clump of white fur with a black flea right in the middle.

Illustration shows a gray-toned drawing of a silverfish, with a long segmented body, six short legs, two long antennae on its head, and three long bristles forming a tail. A blue star-shaped icon in the corner says, "cellulase."

Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of the beginning of a caddisfly's life cycle, with an arrow pointing from a rounded speckled clump to a pupa emerging from a case.

Children outside, near the Outsiders Club shed, working at a table with cut plastic bottles and other materials.

Close-up of a skillet toasting several small round sandwiches with a hand and a spatula flipping one.

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

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Pollinators