Mosquitos: they used to be the bane of my existence. My mom says it’s because I’m so sweet, which is 100% true. I used to eat four bananas a day. They don’t bother me anymore though because I’ve stopped going outside. Thanks to the recent addition of a mini fridge,

Because teamwork makes the dream work (at least according to the poster I’m forever staring at in HR), is a video of insect keeper Terra Green challenging his 1,000 worker ant colony with four increasingly difficult obstacles separating them from a food reward. The first obstacle is digging to find

This is Ze Frank’s ‘True Facts: The Science of the Praying Mantis’, an incredibly in-depth look at the lives of praying mantises, discussing everything you’ve ever wanted (and not wanted) to know about them. Not to brag about my own amateur entomology or anything, but most of this stuff I

This is a video from WIRED of entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware answering questions about insects that were submitted by internet users, including could cockroaches survive a nuclear war? Do dragonflies and flies coordinate their flight while mating? Why do crickets chirp? Are tarantulas dangerous? PLUS MORE. Sooooo much more. I

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s macro footage M&M’s melting in water comes another video from Youtube channel Another Perspective, this time some macro timelapse footage of tiny stink bugs hatching. They look so cute! Almost like something out of a Studio Ghibli movie. Speaking of stink bugs — they

This is a ‘best of’ hornet flight video compiled by nature videographer Luthar Lenz using footage he’s shot in the past. It looks so wild it’s almost hard to believe it’s real and not just a modern remake of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. At 2:00 some other species of

This is a slow motion video from the folks (and bugs) of Ant Lab, featuring a bunch of different insects (spanning 8 different taxonomic orders — that’s the one between class and family) spreading their wings and taking to the sky, shot at 3,200 frames/second. Beautiful, wasn’t it? “Gross I