This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative travels from a 300 million year old fossil clue about handedness in trilobites, to a butterfly highway of milkweed spreading across Florida roadsides, to one of the strangest parasites in the animal kingdom, a still-unfolding question about bees and data centers, a look at scorpion safety in Morocco, and a macro photography project revealing colors hidden in plain sight on ordinary insects. Six stories, six legs, one very curious host.

On this episode of The Six-Legged Narrative, we cover a brand-new damselfly species discovered in India, why earwigs deserve better press, a hidden cost honeybees may pay for visiting milkweed, an entomologist's daring camera dive into a living army ant colony, the strange corpse-gift courtship rituals of scorpionflies, and the spectacularannual migration of fifty million red crabs across Christmas Island. Six stories, six legs — or more — and a whole lot to talk about.

A flying insect that looks exactly like a puff of cotton, a French startup's drone that's learning to hunt mosquitoes by sound, and a viral “carnivorous grasshopper” that isn't actually a grasshopper at all. Plus new research on how ant brains repurpose hunger circuits into parenting instincts, a hopeful study on probiotics for climate-stressed honey bees, and a monarch butterfly tracking project with a surprising practice run behind the scenes. Six stories, six legs (give or take), on The Six-Legged Narrative.