Moth Week! The Secret Lives of Moths: Uncovering Hidden Nighttime Stories

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What Insects Call Our Garden Home (and Maybe Yours Too!)

Bee Curious: Up Close & Un-bee-lievable

A very close-up, high resolution photograph of a beetle that has a mostly black body with orange-brown legs and yellow hairs and the backend of the body. Its eyes appear very large and globular.

Megalopinus sanguinitriguttatus, a species of rove beetle.

A Bug’s (After)Life

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A Bug's (After)Life

Camel Spiders: Neither Camels, nor Spiders

Black and white microscope image of something with hard ridges and soft fringe

Small Millipedes Impact the Earth in a Big Way

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Scanning electron microscope image of a millipede mandible.

Of Ivory Gulls and Parasites

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Ivory Gull by Nathan Goldberg

Chicago Adventure, Part Eight: How to be an Insect

Ants of the rainforests of South America. Why are some species only found in some places?

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2009 REU Intern Elizabeth Loehrer

Branches on the enormous Beetle Tree of Life

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2009 REU Intern Kristin Kalita

The Man Who Mistook His Tarantula for a Hat

A Century of Butterflies and Moths

Variety is the Spice of Lice

Media

A beautiful Fall Friday night at the museum

Understanding Turtle Ants

Fossil beetle video

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Fossil Carrion Feeders

How do I get rid of the pest ants in my home?

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White Pelicans outside my office window

Fossil Invertebrates Diversity

The evolution of an ant-plant mutualism

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2010 REU Intern Sara Zufan

Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods

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Two boys stand in front of a reproduction of a crayfish more than twice their size. The boy to the left crouches, looking down into a window cut in floor. Recreated soil and roots are visible behind them.

Underground Adventure

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These fossils were the perfect home for ancient baby bees

Monarch butterflies need help, and a little bit of milkweed goes a long way

One in a million” blue-eyed cicada joins the Field Museum’s research collections

Field Museum celebrates the cicada emergence with insect-pinning classes, Meet a Scientist events, and a bug-inspired meal at Big Star

Insects

Explore this topic through the content here and the halls of the Museum.

Articles and videos

A Bug's (After)Life

Camel Spiders: Neither Camels, nor Spiders

Small Millipedes Impact the Earth in a Big Way

Exhibit Halls

Underground Adventure

Related Projects

Urban Pollinator Conservation

Emerging Pathogens Project

Press Releases

These fossils were the perfect home for ancient baby bees

Monarch butterflies need help, and a little bit of milkweed goes a long way

One in a million” blue-eyed cicada joins the Field Museum’s research collections

Field Museum celebrates the cicada emergence with insect-pinning classes, Meet a Scientist events, and a bug-inspired meal at Big Star

Related Areas

Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods

Related Topics

Insects - Research

Resources

Selected Insects in your Midwestern Native Garden

Events

Moth Week! The Secret Lives of Moths: Uncovering Hidden Nighttime Stories

What Insects Call Our Garden Home (and Maybe Yours Too!)

Bee Curious: Up Close & Un-bee-lievable