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beetle's path on leaf

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Headlight beetle's glowing path caught in time-lapse photo

This time-lapse image, taken over 30 seconds in a Costa Rican cloud forest, shows a headlight beetle's wandering path along a leaf

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Ants use tools to collect honey

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Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home

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Glow-worm cave

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Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey

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fig artwork

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Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it

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bugs

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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

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Caterpillars on a leaf in the foreground, with Richard Toft in the background wearing an orange high-vis jacket

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New Zealand is the first country to wipe out invasive butterfly

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Bee on mouldy plant

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Bees collect honeydew from bugs before spring blossoms arrive

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Assassin bug hunting a spider

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Spider-eating bug muffles web vibrations to sneak up on prey

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A close-up of a bee perched on the stem of a plant

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Insects may have feelings, so do we need more humane fly spray?

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ant bridge

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Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

The amazing bridges and scaffolds that ants build using their own bodies can teach us a thing or two about robotics, engineering and cooperation

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Ants trapped in nuclear bunker are developing their own society

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Bees die needlessly as Zika prompts US state to spray pesticide

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See the creepy-crawly stowaways in a 3000-year-old loaf of bread

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Decline of wild bee species in England linked to pesticide use

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