Season 9: Season 9
Citrus Psyllids Bribe Ants With Strings Of Candy Poop
Researchers use invisible lasers, ghastly wasps and more trickery to protect orange groves
Citrus Psyllids Bribe Ants With Strings Of Candy Poop
How Hoverflies Spawn Maggots that Sweeten Your Oranges
As they gorge, oblique streaktail hoverflies help keep orange trees safe from disease.
How Hoverflies Spawn Maggots that Sweeten Your Oranges
Yellowjackets Roll Tiny Meatballs For The Babies
Why is that yellowjacket crashing your BBQ? She’s gathering food for the nest’s larvae.
Yellowjackets Roll Tiny Meatballs For The Babies
This Nasty Parasite Is Ruining Monarch Butterfly Wings
Explore Ophryocystis elektroscirrham and all the ways to help the Monarch butterflies.
This Nasty Parasite Is Ruining Monarch Butterfly Wings
Fire Ants Turn Into a Stinging Life Raft to Survive Floods
Floating colonies of red fire ants are a risk for people wading through floodwater.
Fire Ants Turn Into a Stinging Life Raft to Survive Floods
Backswimmer Insects Drag Prey Into the Upside Down
These voracious predators cruise belly up below the surface of a pond or gentle stream.
Backswimmer Insects Drag Prey Into the Upside Down
Watch Barn Owls Swallow Rodents Whole
Barn owls turn mice, gophers and voles into balls of fur and bones known as pellets.
Watch Barn Owls Swallow Rodents Whole
Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers to Steal Their Nectar
It’s called nectar robbing: Bees get nectar, but don’t pollinate the plants in exchange.
Carpenter Bees Stab Flowers to Steal Their Nectar
Giant water bugs pack one of the most painful bites of any insect, but they're great dads.
Don't Go Chasing Water Bugs
This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries
The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse.
This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries
Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom
Those precious silk garments in your closet were made by the caterpillars of a fuzzy moth.
Silkworms Spin Cocoons That Spell Their Own Doom
Barnacles Go To Unbelievable Lengths to Hook Up
Barnacles might look like jagged little rocks, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.
Barnacles Go To Unbelievable Lengths to Hook Up
Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters Into Jugs of Nectar
Honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like tiny water balloons.
Honeypot Ants Turn Their Biggest Sisters Into Jugs of Nectar
The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes
What animal sprays acid that reeks of vinegar from its rear end? A vinegaroon, of course.
The Vinegaroon Sprays Acid to Foil Its Foes
This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death
The cage fungus looks and smells like decaying meat — on purpose.
This Mushroom Tricks Flies By Faking Its Own Death
Flying Termites Take a Dangerous Journey to a New Life
Subterranean termites fly off in swarms, and then drop their wings to start new colonies.
Flying Termites Take a Dangerous Journey to a New Life
These Stick Insects Are Three Times Weirder Than You Think
A twig is actually just one of many disguises for the Australian walking stick insect.