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This Invasive Species Awareness Week, Learn How Museum Researchers Track the Rogue Wildlife Infiltrating American Ecosystems

From a beautiful fish that’s eating the Caribbean to a tiny bivalve with a huge impact, North America’s most notorious introduced species have reshaped the continent’s ecosystems

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Top Discoveries at the National Museum of Natural History in 2024

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Fearsome Flies: Meet the Scientist Studying the Top Predators in the Insect World

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When the Moon Obscures the Sun, How Does Life on Earth Respond?

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NMNH in Review: Top Discoveries by Museum Scientists in 2023

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Celebrate the Holiday Season with the Museum’s Stunning Collection of Blue Specimens

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Meet the Scientist Studying the Scary Speed of Spider Jaws

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Meet the Smithsonian’s Spookiest Staffers: Flesh-Eating Beetles

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A Bounty of Butterflies Arrives at the Smithsonian

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How Leafcutter Ants and Other Culinary Creatures Prepare a Feast

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Meet the Scientist Who Knows the Buzz About the Northern Giant Hornet

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Iconic Photos Give Rare Glimpse of Smithsonian's Storage Rooms

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What Mummified Shrews and Giant Hornets Reveal About Biodiversity

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Meet Seven Species Named After Musicians

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10 Popular Scientific Discoveries From 2021

Mosquitoes are more than blood-sucking menaces. They also pollinate flowers, have intricate sex lives and eat other disease-carrying mosquitoes. (Lawrence Reeves)

The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes, the World’s Most Hated Insects

The world’s smallest moth, the pygmy sorrel moth, has a wingspan as short as 2.65 millimeters. It belongs to a group called the leaf miner moths, which could become problematic pests for more farmers as global temperatures rise. (Patrick Clement, CC BY 2.0)

Who's the Smallest of Them All? Mini Moth Gets a Big Title

There are about 160,000 species of moths and butterflies worldwide, each with unique characteristics. (Smithsonian)

Seven Bizarre Moths to Celebrate National Moth Week

Leafcutter ants can be found across Central and South America. They build gigantic, subterranean nests with complex societies. (Chip Clark, Smithsonian)

Thinking of Eating Cicadas? Here are Six Other Tasty Insects to Try Too

Through research on living and preserved fungus-farming ants, entomologists are learning more about the insects’ deep connection to their environment and how that relationship might evolve in response to a changing climate. (Smithsonian)

How Fungus-Farming Ants Fertilize Climate Research

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