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Insects

Podcast: Tick Collection

What can we learn from these blood suckers?

The Podcast Team May 29, 2023

Photographing Fireflies, a Love Story

An award-winning photographer shares what these bioluminescent insects have taught him—and how you can capture their beauty.

Emily Dieckman May 24, 2023

Where The Butterflies Roam

Ten places to enjoy the flight of the butterflies.

Jonathan Carey May 12, 2023

Kamakura, Japan

‘Insect Mound’

Nestled among the bamboos in a temple complex, this art installation serves as a unique memorial to insects.

Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shockingly Electric'

Remembering one passionate entomologist who poetically described and classified more than 70 species' painful stings.

Lauren Young April 24, 2023

10 of Our Absolute Favorite Atlas Obscura Podcast Episodes

Wait'll you hear these wonders of audio storytelling.

April White April 12, 2023

Podcast: Fairy Circles

An enchanting natural phenomenon in a daunting place.

The Podcast Team April 12, 2023

How This Tiny Mexican Town Has Saved Their Monarch Butterflies—For Now

At the Joya Redonda Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, hibernating monarch numbers have multiplied tenfold. But is that enough to save the insect?

Vanessa Freije & Yolotzin Hernández April 7, 2023

Litchfield Park, Australia

Magnetic Termite Mounds

Let these towering termite-building structures tell you where to go.

Sponsored by Tourism Northern Territory

Amherst, Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts Entomology Collection

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

How a Lone Researcher Faced Down Millions of Army Ants on the March in Ecuador

Renowned entomologist Frank Nischk remembers when the determined insects tried to invade a field station.

Frank Nischk March 1, 2023

Podcast: Cactoblastis Memorial Cairn

A moth once saved Australia from a cactus crisis.

The Podcast Team February 16, 2023

Hawai'i Tackles Invasive Little Fire Ants With Vigilance, Slingshots, and Gooey 'Sputter'

Across the archipelago, scientists and citizens are uniting against the tiny terrors, deploying an arsenal of creative weapons.

Ashley Stimpson December 14, 2022

Quirky Gifts for the Crafty DIYer

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.

Atlas Obscura December 1, 2022

Chicago, Illinois

The Insect Asylum

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A Cookbook for Surviving the End of the World

Fancy a spit-roasted roasted alien? Urine whiskey? A deep-fried Game Boy?

Sam Lin-Sommer October 26, 2022

Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among Us

A creepy form of parasitism is one of evolution's favorite strategies, and scientists are starting to figure out how it works.

Gemma Tarlach October 20, 2022

How a High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science

Systemic racism kept him from a position in higher education—but it didn't stop Charles Henry Turner from rewriting our understanding of bees, ants, and cockroaches.

Edward D. Melillo August 15, 2022