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• Locked and loaded: unique trigger design fires this ant’s snapping jaws

  31 August 2017

  

   

• The beautiful and bizarre treehopper

  28 August 2017

  

   

• Is This the Long-Sought Answer to the Question of Tropical Biodiversity?

  30 June 2017

  

   

• Beetle and pollen trapped in 105 million-year-old amber reveal fourth major pollination mode in mid-Mesozoic

  2 March 2017

  

   

• One-Stop Shopping for Federal Scientific Collections

  19 December 2016

  

   

• One cold bug: Fossil beetle discovered in Antarctica

  1 December 2016

  

   

• Monarch Butterflies Make the Most of the Smithsonian’s Gardens

  22 November 2016

  

   

• Ant bridges connect tropical tree crowns

  16 November 2016

  

   

• Some ants still trying to get crop domestication right

  2 September 2016

  

   

• Mystery solved? Ants Protect Young From Infection By Cocooning Them in Fungus

  30 August 2016

  

   

• Beautiful plastic sculptures tell ugly story of human garbage in the ocean

  10 July 2016

  

   

• Next Engineering Revolution Is Hiding in Museum Collections

  10 June 2016

  

   

• Billions & Billions of Periodical Cicadas

  3 June 2016

  

   

• Discovery: Rising CO2 depletes pollen’s nutritional potency, bees suffer

  1 June 2016

  

   

• Enjoy Face Time with Seven of Earth’s 3-5 Million Mite Species

  4 May 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian Discovery: 46-million-year-old beetle had zinc jaws

  18 April 2016