Beth’s Bug Blog — mymy butterfly

Bug of the Week: Cicadas-The Summer Screamer with a Secret Life

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Cicadas are the noisy mystics of summer, emerging from long underground slumbers to sing, molt, and mate before vanishing again. Leaving behind echoing calls and crunchy shells.

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Bug of the Week: The Giraffe Weevil-Nature’s Long Necked Marvel

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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.

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Bug of the Week: The Treehopper-Bizarre Helmet Bug of Summer

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

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Bug of the Week: The Spaghetti Weevil

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Pasta’s Worst Nightmare???

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Bug of the Week: The Glasswing Butterfly

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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.

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