Beth’s Bug Blog

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 cuckoo bee is a clever con artist buzzing through life on someone else’s hard work.

The 88 butterfly is a natural mathematician, flying through the rainforest with numbers on its wings.

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.