Bug Squad

When you're 5 years old, the world is full of wonders. Especially when your mother takes you to the Bohart Museum of Entomology to see the butterfly specimens.

Imagine you're in an Indonesian rainforest and a humongous bee, with a wingspan of two and a half inches, flies over your head. The world's largest bee, known as Wallace's Giant Bee (Megachile pluto), considered extinct since 1981, lives. It's not extinct, after all. You probably read the news.

Everyone knows that scorpions are venomous--some are more venomous than others--and that they fluoresce under ultraviolet light.

There's still plenty of time to register for the seventh annual International Pollinator Conference, set Wednesday, July 17 through Saturday, July 20 in the ARC Ballroom.

More nematodes in outer space? It's true. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Pheronym, a company in Alachua, Fla.