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Insects

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Photo of bees near an artificial beehive.

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

Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.

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.

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

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.