A ant feeds on dandelion flower during a sunny day in city park in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio welcomed more than 12,000 honey bees to two hives in designated pollinator gardens at the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill in Grove City on May 29, 2024. Currently, SWACO has almost two acres of pollinator gardens on its property, with plans to expand in the coming years. The bees will work to help enhance pollination within the gardens and surrounding land to increase biodiversity. (Photo by Barbara J. Perenic/Columbus Dispatch via USA TODAY Network)





An adult periodical cicada, in the process of shedding its nymphal skin, is visible on Saturday, May 11, 2024, in Cincinnati. There are two large compound eyes, which are used to visually perceive the world around them, and three small, jewel-like, simple eyes called ocelli at center. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





A periodical cicada appears in a hay field at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site on Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Lerna, Ill. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





An adult periodical cicada, just after shedding its nymphal skin, climbs over other nymphal shells at the base of a tree on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Charleston, Ill. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





A Brood XIX cicada sits on a tree in Smyrna, Tennessee, on Monday, May 20, 2024. Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. (Photo by Kevin Wurm/Reuters)





A brood XIX cicada crawls up a tree in North Carolina, US on May 1, 2024. These cicadas have a 13-year life cycle, so this one has come from an egg laid by its mother in in 2011. Brood XIX’s emergence this spring coincides with the arrival of another brood that is on a 17-year cycle; entomologists say this may result in an influx of more than 1tn cicadas across 16 states. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)





A ladybird explores iris petals in Dorset, UK on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Bumblebees covered in pollen as they germinate dandelions in the hot weather in Athy Co Kildare, Ireland on Monday, April 22, 2024. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images)





A ladybird explores the plants in the early morning sunshine, in Oxfordshire, UK on June 5, 2024. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A butterfly and other insects feed on flower nectar in a forest outside Tallinn, Estonia on May 3, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A Papilio Rumanzovia butterfly flies through flowers at the greenhouse of the Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), a science museum in Trento, Italy, Monday, May 6, 2024. The Butterfly Forest was created to bring public awareness to some of the research that MUSE is doing in Udzungwa Mountains to study and protect the world’s biodiversity against threats such as deforestation and climate change. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)





A long exposure photo shows a swarm of fireflies at Longgang Trail in Keelung on May 7, 2024. The firefly season in Taiwan usually starts in late April and lasts through early May. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng/AFP Photo)





A bee-fly feeds on flower nectar in a forest outside Tallinn, Estonia on May 2, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A damselfly (Nehalennia) is in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on May 26, 2024. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)