Beth’s Bug Blog — Weird bugs

They may be a nuisance on your windshield, but lovebugs are nature’s oddball romantics, flying two-by-two into the sunset (and sometimes into your grill). Whether you find them gross or charming, you’ve got to admit: that’s dedication.

The Dracula ant is small, secretive, and surprisingly hardcore. With the fastest jaws on Earth and a taste for larval hemolymph, it’s an evolutionary mystery wrapped in a gothic horror novel.

The zombie wasp turns innocent bugs into unwitting bodyguards, architects, and ultimately…corpses. They’re THE ULTIMATE final boss.

The Jerusalem cricket is the gentle ogre of the bug world; big, misunderstood, and digging its way into our hearts.

Plume moths are the moth world’s minimalist performance artists. Silent, strange, and oddly stylish.