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• Discovery: trap-jaw spiders snap prey with super-spidey speed and power

  7 April 2016

  

   

• Blood-thirsty jungle horse-flies catch big chill from Smithsonian entomologist

  16 March 2016

  

   

• Smithsonian study reveals white-tailed deer in eastern U.S. are infected with a malaria parasite

  5 February 2016

  

   

• Remarkable butterfly look-alike lived 50 million years before butterflies appeared

  3 February 2016

  

   

• New Montana ant species emerge from 46-million-year-old rock

  8 January 2016

  

   

• Killer Insect profile: The Assassin Fly

  30 November 2015

  

   

• Disease carrying ticks hitchhike into U.S. on migratory birds

  22 October 2015

  

   

• Colorful Caterpillar Chemists

  8 October 2015

  

   

• DNA solves puzzle of catfish dinners

  25 September 2015

  

   

• Drought slows wildlife reproduction on California’s Channel Islands

  21 September 2015

  

   

• Meet the (flea) beetles! New species

  3 September 2015

  

   

• Meet a new true bug: “Wheelerodemus muhlenbergiae”

  14 July 2015

  

   

• How Carnivorous Plants avoid eating their pollinating insect friends

  18 June 2015

  

   

• Sweet life: tropical plants attract ants with sugary nectar

  27 February 2015

  

   

• It’s science: zombies already walk among us

  5 February 2015

  

   

• Five fascinating species discovered by Smithsonian scientists in 2014

  27 December 2014