Beth’s Bug Blog — bizarre bugs

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

Bark beetles may be small, but their impact is anything but. They’re the silent, sneaky assassins of the forest world, making their homes under the bark and leaving devastation in their wake.

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.