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Researchers at Flinders University in Australia use sound to study soil health.
insects

How Can You Tell If Soil Is Healthy? Just Listen to It.

Ground-breaking "ecoacoustics" use underground critter concerts to monitor a hidden ecosystem.
Ayurella Horn-Muller September 9, 2024
List

25 Places to Learn to Love Creepy, Crawly Critters

From the art of spiders and glow of blue fireflies to bugs you can ride and insects you can eat.
Roxanne Hoorn July 19, 2024
From an interactive journal about protecting the Earth to an at-home Egyptian pyramid dig, these aren’t your typical kids gifts.
games

Kids Gifts For the Young and Young at Heart

A giving guide from the Atlas Obscura team.
Sarah Durn November 28, 2023
Përrenjas, Albania

Lady Bug Buildings

Decorated with a staggering 1,380 ladybugs, the installation has turned what was once a grim, forgotten nickel mine into a landmark and a statement.
outsider art

Podcast: Knight’s Spider Web Farm

The helpers behind these one-of-a-kind art pieces have eight legs.
The Podcast Team July 27, 2023
insects

Podcast: Amazon Night Hikes

Overcoming a fear of our multi-legged friends—at night, in the world's largest tropical rainforest.
The Podcast Team July 26, 2023
science

Podcast: Tick Collection

What can we learn from these blood suckers?
The Podcast Team May 29, 2023
Iridescent green figeater beetles (Cotinis mutabilis) have long been used as adornments in cultures around the world.
archaeology

Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?

Archaeologists believe jewelry made from the bugs was a coveted status symbol 2,000 years ago.
Shoshi Parks March 23, 2023
A wiliwili flower in full bloom.
insects

Can a War of the Wasps Save Hawai‘i’s Wiliwili Trees?

It's a classic good wasp/bad wasp situation.
Sabrina Imbler January 15, 2020
The 99-million-year-old beetle, bathed in pollen.
mines

Found: Pollen on a 99-Million-Year-Old Beetle, in Amber

The pollen-dusted beetle pushes back the earliest evidence of insect-flower pollination by 50 million years.
Sabrina Imbler November 19, 2019
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.
Jeongseon, South Korea

Grasshopper's Dream Cafe

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.
Beware the baby spittlebug, harbinger of doom?
insects

Have You Seen Britain's Tiny Potential Tree-Killer, the Adorable Spittlebug?

They're kind of cute, but also carry a plant disease.
Sabrina Imbler July 10, 2019
The new neighbors have moved in.
insects

Giant, Sprawling Yellow Jacket Nests Are Surging in Alabama

Warming winters may be responsible.
Sabrina Imbler July 1, 2019
Sasha, standing by the alpine stonefly's aquatic habitat.
insects

A Trio of Fluffy Detectives Is on a Quest to Save the Endangered Alpine Stonefly

Australia's best insect trackers are very, very good boys.
Sabrina Imbler May 24, 2019
Taylor's checkerspot butterfly.
prisons

A Butterfly Conservation Lab Takes Flight in a Women's Prison

It's also helping incarcerated women reconnect with nature.
Sabrina Imbler May 9, 2019
A <em>Hydrozetes</em> mite cored from Marcacocha.
archaeology

Poop-Eating Mites Are Handy Historians

These arthropods can tell us about the causes of animal extinctions.
Matthew Taub January 9, 2019
Lots of contenders here.
spiders

The Best Bugs to Befriend in the New Year

Get to know some cuddly roaches and dramatic beetles.
Abbey Perreault December 26, 2018