Season 9: Season 9
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.