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Scientists learn about the monarch butterflies' migration by capturing and placing the identifying tags in the insects.

After years of pleasing a fascinated audience across Europe with books of detailed descriptions and life-size paintings of familiar insects.

At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and Insects that were not previously known.

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

Her observations helped dismiss the popular belief that insects spontaneously emerged from mud.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.

Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.

She began in her 20s, making textless, decorative paintings of flowers with insects.

She was the first to bring together insects and their habitats, including food they ate, into a single ecological composition.

The results of her decades worth of careful observations were detailed paintings and descriptions of European insects, followed by unconventional visuals and stories of insects and animals from a land that most at the time could only imagine.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

White storks feed on locusts and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.

Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away.

The insects gather under the table.

They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers.

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.

Subsequent experiments reproduced this effect with other stimuli, such the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and photographs of disgusting insects.