Beth’s Bug Blog — cabinet of curiosities

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.

Treehoppers are the helmet-wearing, sap-sipping oddballs of summer; equal parts adorable & bizarre, and always worth a second glance.

The glasswing butterfly proves that sometimes, the most mesmerizing things in nature aren’t the ones you can see, but the ones that vanish right before your eyes.

The Atlas moth is a giant, a master of disguise, and a creature of mystery. With wings that mimic a snake’s head and a short but spectacular adult life, it’s one of the strangest and most awe-inspiring moths out there.

The dead leaf butterfly is a shapeshifting marvel, dazzling in flight but vanishing into the background at rest. Nature’s greatest magic trick might just be a butterfly pretending to be a leaf.