A maybug beetle (Melolontha) climbs on a plant at a garden outside Moscow on May 14, 2021. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





An adult cicada sheds its nymphal skin on the bark on an oak tree, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge from 15 states in the U.S. East. Scientists say Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs which come out only once every 17 years. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





A holly blue butterfly in the warm sunshine in Henley on Thames, England on May 17, 2022. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Red Velvet Mite Walks on a plant Leaf on the Outskirts of Pushkar, Rajasthan, India on 27 June 2021. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A bee feeds on nectar at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on April 4, 2022. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





This picture taken on October 14, 2020, in Chisseaux near Tours, France, shows Asian hornets on their nest. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)





A macro shot of a Praying Mantis eating a Japanese beetle for lunch, Fairfax, Virginia on August 11, 2022. (Photo by Diaa Bekheet)





One of Britain’s largest spiders, the great fox-spider, has been discovered on a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey having not been seen in the country for 21 years. (Photo by Mike Waite/Surrey Wildlife Trust)





Dead monarch butterflies litter the ground at El Rosario sanctuary, in El Rosario, in Michoacan state, Mexico on February 11, 2021. (Photo by Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters)





Common red soldier beetles mate on a thistle head in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom on August 5, 2021. (Photo by Geoff Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 10, 2021. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A clouded yellow butterfly in Keyhaven marshes, Hampshire on October 1, 2020. The clouded yellow is counted as one of Britain’s 59 native species although it can’t survive the British winter. It arrives across the Channel every spring and breeds on southerly coasts and downs before a British-born generation returns south to sunnier climes each autumn. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An orange oakleaf rests on a plant at the Taipei Zoo on November 26, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP Photo)





Damselfly (Nehalennia) in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on June 24, 2022. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A European garden spider in its web in the sunshine in Dunsden, United Kingdom on September 18, 2021. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Painted Lady butterfly Fascinating photographs of butterflies, dragonflies and ladybirds taken at ground level demonstrate a “bug's eye view” of the world. The revealing photos, captured with specially-designed camera equipment, aim to give an “alternative view” of the visual world a flying bug experiences. The images were taken by retired veterinary science teacher John Brackenbury near his home city of Cambridge end of April 2022. (Photo by John Brackenbury/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A peacock butterfly and a bee gather pollen on a blooming branch of an apricot tree, near the town of Pristina on March 21, 2020. (Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP Photo)





A bumblebee shows its teeth sitting on a blade of grass on a warm spring Monday, May 27, 2019 in a garden in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)