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.
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.
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.
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.