Beth’s Bug Blog — bizarre

Bagworms are living burritos:  wrapped in bark, mysterious, & oddly cozy!

The feather-horned beetle is a rare, elegant insect with some of the most dramatic antennae in nature. With a hidden, parasitic larval stage and a short-lived adult life, this beetle remains one of the insect world’s most intriguing enigmas.

The cuckoo bee is a clever con artist buzzing through life on someone else’s hard work.

The antlion is the master of the bug booby trap; small, sneaky, and weirdly brilliant.

The giraffe weevil is nature’s oddball with a super-stretch neck. A bug that transforms competition into an art form and makes every encounter in Madagascar feel like a peek into a world of extraordinary adaptations.