Monarch butterflies land on branches at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., on November 10, 2021. The number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped 30% from the previous year likely due to a wet winter. Researchers with the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental organization, said Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that volunteers who visited sites in California and Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 230,000 butterflies, compared to 330,00 in 2022. (Photo by Nic Coury/AP Photo)





A periodical cicada nymph extends a limb in Macon, Ga., on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, after being found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





Worker bees swarm outside a hive at an apiary in Kuwait City on February 5, 2024. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A black ant crawls on a flower bud at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A bee gathers pollen from bluebells in London, Britain on April 14, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly in the UK, March 2024. Conservationists have recorded their lowest ever count of some butterfly varieties in Britain amid concerns about human impacts on the environment. (Photo by Ian H. Leach/UKBMS/PA Wire)





Bees fly in front of a beehive in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, April 8, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





20 thousand forest caterpillar hunter (calosoma sycophanta) produced in the Biological Control Laboratory of Gaziantep Forest Management Directorate, are released into the nature under the responsibility of Kahramanmaras Regional Directorate of Forestry in Gaziantep, Turkiye on April 5, 2024. It is stated that these insects are produced to protect forests and ensure natural balance. (Photo by Adsiz Gunebakan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A damselfly is sitting on a leaf in a garden in Nagaon district, Assam, India, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A bee approaches a cherry plum blossom in Brandenburg, Germany, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)





A bee prepares to land on Texas mountain laurel blooms Wednesday, February 28, 2024, in Spring, Texas. (Photo by David J. Phillip/AP Photo)





Daffodil-like butterflies are being seen in Dambulla, Sri Lanka on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A butterfly rests on a flowering Lantana plant, in San Antonio, April 15, 2024. (Photo by Eric Gay/AP Photo)





A ladybug (or ladybird beetle) sits on a wheat spike in the field on the outskirts of the village of Ajmer, India, on 14 March 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This photograph taken on February 12, 2024, shows a Pine processionary caterpillar in Moisson (some 70km west of Paris). A stinging insect, the Pine processionary caterpillar, which is harmful to the health of both humans and animals, causing severe irritation, is now infesting almost all of mainland France, encouraged, according to the authorities, by global warming. (Photo by Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP Photo)