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This Outdoor Lantern Will Keep Mosquitoes Away—No Bug Spray Necessary

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This Outdoor Lantern Will Keep Mosquitoes Away—No Bug Spray Necessary

17 Noisy Facts About 17-Year Cicadas

The cicadas are coming!!!

17 Noisy Facts About 17-Year Cicadas

The Reason a Grasshopper Wound Up Stuck in Vincent van Gogh's Painting Olive Trees

Vincent van Gogh painted Olive Trees in 1889 perhaps without realizing it contained a dead grasshopper.

The Reason a Grasshopper Wound Up Stuck in Vincent van Gogh's Painting Olive Trees

Can You Spot the Moth Hiding in Your Laundry?

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Can You Spot the Moth Hiding in Your Laundry?

Can Honey Go Bad?

Honey can last pretty much forever.

This $10 Draft Stopper Helps Keep Cold Air From Creeping Into Your Home

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Microscopic Wasps Will Help Stamp Out a Moth Infestation at Anne Boleyn’s Ancestral Home

Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England.

Billions of Brood X Cicadas Are Ready to Emerge After 17 Years Underground

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Why Are Humans Afraid of Bugs?

Who wouldn't be screaming in this situation?

Warning: A ‘Robust' Explosion Of Stink Bugs Could Be Headed Your Way

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How to Remove a Tick Safely and Effectively

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A Typo Put a Giant Mosquito in the Running to Become Mississippi’s New State Flag Symbol

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Lead from the 2019 Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire Detected in Paris’s Beehives

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Washington Officials Just Caught Their First ‘Murder Hornet’—Now They Have Less Than Two Months to Find Its Nest

The mug shot of Washington's smallest (but still much too large) criminal.

Joshua Tree National Park Closes Two Campgrounds Due to ‘Aggressive’ Honey Bees

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10 Facts About Argentine Ants

A pile of genetically-related Argentine ants