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

Spooktacular Science: Members Halloween Lounge

Pollinator Week in the PlayLab

Pollinator Week

Two monarch butterflies are perched atop a flower in downtown Chicago.

Cities are Key to Saving Monarch Butterflies

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Monarch butterflies have been recommended for protected status by the US Fish and Wildlife Service

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Cicada Double Emergence 

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Meet Chicago's Native Bees

Darkling Beetles: Spray acid, play dead

The Joy of Cooking (with Bugs!)!

Dozens of orange and black monarch butterflies perch on tree branches, practically perching on top of one another. Some are blurred as they flap their wings.

Following the Monarch Butterflies to Mexico

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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

A Beetle's Beloved Beer Bottle [60 Second Specimens]

Collecting in Vietnam: The Search for Millipedes

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.

A butterfly cocoon, and an orange and black butterfly on a purple flower.

Monarch Butterflies 101

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Left: a brown, cracked skull; right: a group of people sitting on the short of a river, with two people standing and addressing the group

6,000-Year-Old Skull Could Be from the World’s Earliest Known Tsunami Victim

The Aitape skull, the 6,000-year-old cranium that scientists believe belongs to the world’s earliest known tsunami victim. 

Creepy and Crawly Centipedes and Millipedes

Insect Cribs

Close-up of an orange and black butterfly perched on a group of small, unopened flowers

Milkweeds Can Save Monarchs And Beautify Your Garden

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A monarch butterfly on common milkweed

A bee perched on a light blue-green plant with round buds. The background is an out-of-focus green prairie.

Planting Your Native Garden

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A bee perches on a rattlesnake master, a perennial plant that's native to Illinois.

A bright orange and black butterfly on a purple flower with yellow center

Five Reasons to Add Native Plants to Your Garden

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A monarch butterfly on a New England Aster.

A woman smiling at the camera, standing in a green field with mountains in the background

Women in Science: Corrie Moreau, Evolutionary Biologist and Entomologist

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Collecting ants in the Chiricahua desert in Arizona as part of a field course Corrie helps teach each summer.

2 Extinctions, 1 New Species, and… chess?| Natural News | Ep. 5

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Eight of the Most Nightmarish Prehistoric Animals

Ant Genomics Help Reshape Biological History of the Americas

Sucky Fish & Relationship Advice from Ants | Natural News | Ep. 3

Botflies, Chicago Parakeets, and the Smallest Collection | Ask Emily #13

In Defense of Mosquitoes

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Dedicated Animal Dads That Care for Their Young

Five Ways Animals Keep Their Cool

All Hail the Queen Bee

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Rows of pinned bee specimens

Hummingbird hovering near a plant with red flowers

Five Native Plants to Grow in Your Home Garden

Seven Animal Moms Almost as Good as Yours

Crystal and her Water Beetles

Beetles, Mites, Cockroaches Oh My! [Insect Collection Tour]

5 Behind-the-Scenes Specimens with Links to Darwin

Specimens That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Spiders: The First Web Developers

Millipedes: The First Land Animals

Bullet Ant Venom

Dissecting Ants

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Peregrines, Dermestids & Social Media

In Search of Night Life

Insect Adventure, Part One

The Tiger Beetle

How to Pin an Insect

Romantic Ants

Chicagoland Butterfly Gallery

Insect Adventure, Part Three

Insect Adventure, Part Two

Moths vs Butterflies

Ask Emily #5

Chicago Adventure, Part Eight: How to be an Insect

Chicago Adventure, Part One: Beetles 'n Bats

The Man Who Mistook His Tarantula for a Hat

A Century of Butterflies and Moths

Variety is the Spice of Lice

Understanding Turtle Ants

Fossil Carrion Feeders

Pursuing Parasites

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

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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Al Newton portrait

Alfred Newton

Margaret Thayer portrait

Margaret Thayer

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Matthew Nelsen

These fossils were the perfect home for ancient baby bees

Weevils, long-nosed beetles, are unsung heroes of pollination

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

Monarch butterflies didn’t get the endangered listing they deserve. That might not be a bad thing.

Monarch Butterflies Now on International Endangered List; Here’s What You Can Do to Help

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

New Field Museum Exhibition Allows Visitors to Get Close Look at Bloodfeeding Creatures

Una nueva exposición en el Museo Field permite a los visitantes observar de cerca a criaturas que se alimentan de la sangre

Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests

Urban Pollinator Conservation

Sustainable Landscaping

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