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Europe has had enough of oak processionary caterpillars.

YUCK, YUCK, YUCK

Europe is under siege from a plague of incredibly hairy, toxic caterpillars

Armyworms are in China

Ravenous armyworms are eating their way across China

Zebras

The unlikely reason zebras have black and white stripes

A bee sitting on a Marigold flower in a field of a private plantation near the village of Pishchalovo

Bees can learn the difference between different styles of art in a single afternoon

School students hold a 200-meter-long Indian national flag during India's Independence Day celebrations in Chennai

(NO) TURNING BACK

This NRI came back to India, only to leave again in frustration

Researchers just found termite mounds the size of the UK in Brazil

SQUISHED LIKE A

This is how scientists mail live mosquitoes to their friends

Emerald jewel wasp v. American cock roach.

A cockroach’s karate kick is the trick to fend off killer zombie wasps

SLIMY, CRUNCHY, TASTY

A scientist explains why you should be eating insects to help fight global hunger

READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UP

Feather scales, pollen grains, and a single teardrop: what photos of the microscopic world reveal