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California’s grand insect census

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level. Somewhere between the redwoods and the Salton Sea live perhaps 30,000, maybe ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Students lobby to dethrone Connecticut’s state insect, the voraciously predatory praying mantis

HARTFORD, Conn.HARTFORD, Conn. — When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey bees and ladybugs. Connecticut has designated a voracious predator ...