Bug Profiles

Learn more about your favorite insects! Learn their interesting features, habitats, and roles in our ecosystem.

Monarch Butterfly

Discover the vibrant Monarch Butterfly, known for its distinct orange-black coloration and incredible migration across North America.

Housefly

Discover the Housefly (Musca Domestica), a common grey insect, known for rapid reproduction and its potential to spread diseases globally.

Honey Bee

Discover the Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), the oval-shaped, yellow-black insect known for honey production, pollination, and social colonies.

Bullet Ant

Discover the Bullet Ant, a large, solitary ant native to rainforests, notorious for its powerful sting and diet of small arthropods.

Ladybug

Discover the Ladybug, a beneficial insect with a vibrant red and black color, known for safeguarding gardens by devouring plant-destroying pests.

Dung Beetle

Discover the Dung Beetle, an insect adapted to diverse habitats worldwide, known for its unique behavior of feeding on and laying eggs in dung.

Praying Mantis

Discover the Praying Mantis, a slender insect known for its large front legs and unique camouflage abilities, thriving from gardens to fields.

Fruit Fly

Discover the Fruit Fly, a small insect vital to genetic research due to its rapid reproduction. Contrary to its name, it prefers fermenting fruit.

Bed Bug

Discover the Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius), a nocturnal, blood-feeding insect. Notoriously hard to eliminate, it infests urban and suburban homes.

Flea

Explore the Flea, a notorious ectoparasite with exceptional jumping abilities, thriving in diverse habitats and surviving on mammalian, avian blood.

Carpenter Ant

Discover the Carpenter Ant, an elongated, black insect known for tunneling through damp wood in forest and urban habitats, often mistaken for termites.

Termite

Discover termites, oblong-shaped insects known for causing structural damage by consuming wood. Understand their complex social structures & habitats.

Silverfish

Discover the Silverfish, a unique, tear-shaped insect with a silver hue. Thriving in urban areas, it enjoys dark, damp spaces and a carb-rich diet.

Tick

Explore the life of the Tick (Ixodida), a parasitic insect found in forests and urban areas, known for transmitting diseases through blood-feeding.

Lice

Discover Pediculus humanus, or Lice, grayish-white oblong insects known for infesting human scalps in urban-suburban areas, causing itching.

Carpenter Bee

Discover the Carpenter Bee, a cylindrical, black insect found in urban habitats, known for its unique wood-burrowing nesting behaviour and non-aggressiveness.

Carpet Beetle

Discover the Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci), a small, urban insect known for dwelling in human habitats and damaging household items.

Japanese Beetle

Discover the Japanese Beetle, an iconic green and copper insect from Japan, notorious for its destructive feeding habits on various plants.

Antlion

Discover the intriguing lifecycle of the Antlion, an oblong insect known for its funnel-shaped traps, thriving in sand banks and dunes.

Yellow Jacket

Discover the Yellow Jacket (Vespula vulgaris), a wasp-like insect with unique yellow & black colors, commonly spotted in forests, meadows, and gardens.

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