Bugs

bivouac
Army ants send out raiding parties that decimate everything in their path. At night they set up temporary bivouacs.

borer
Across this bucolic countryside, trouble is brewing. An invasive African insect known as the coffee berry borer is threatening the area’s crops.

Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line pools of stagnant water in Pakistan. Millions of spiders were driven into the trees by massive flooding in the area.

Law enforcement agents often use dermestid beetles to expose skeletons when chemicals might damage evidence. The insects might give you the creepy-crawlies, but they are a great tool in forensic investigations.

The Cyclosa spider uses its dead enemies' bodies to build a big fake spider decoy to sit on. Seriously, the spider uses its victim's insect corpses to construct a larger spider-shaped design to ward off potential predators.

With four wings, dragonflies can reach a speed of 60 mph (97 km/h). They are also known as helicopter insect -- hovering and flying in any direction.

Anopheles mosquitoes carry the malaria parasite. The blood-seeking females inject these microscopic invaders, each bite acting like an infected hypodermic needle.

Many scarabs explode with bright colors and intricate patterns. Some are iridescent and others have an unnatural metallic sheen.

Their buzzing can reach 90 decibels, as loud as some power motors. They have been seen in clusters of up to 1.5 million per acre. As if from some horror movie, cicada nymphs have been described as “boiling out of the ground."

A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.