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Saturday, July 30, 2022
In today’s newsletter, w= e show how microphotography illuminates the insect w= orld, visit the real Armageddon, search for dangerous ‘twilight asteroi= ds’ … and rediscover the joy of the shore=2E Plus, what happened = to the ‘the wicke= dest city on Earth’?
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An iridescent beetle wing casing (above)=2E A dazzling, multicolored cutic= le (below)=2E A shiny chitinous armor=2E Photos taken with a microscope len= s reveal the hypnotic beauty of the critters we usually dismiss as bugs=2E =

These colors come from chitin, a substance that forms an insect= 019;s hard outer covering as well as its wings and other flexible parts=2E = The chitin, which has been in arthropods for as long as 550 million years, = is behind the metallic-colored scales of the Chrysiridia butterfly’s wings, or the thousands of lenses in a hornet’s= compound eye=2E
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“Like cellulose, the building block of plant cell walls, chitin= is made of glucose molecules, but it also contains nitrogen, producing a f= irm structure,” reads this report, which was first published in National Geographic’s Hungarian edition=2E Take a look below at more images of t= he colorful, complex world of insects=2E

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The shiny chitinous armor of this pseudoscorpion, known unsurprisingly as = scissorhands, hides a tiny insectivore=2E This animal appears frightening, = but unlike true scorpions, its stinger is not poisonous=2E
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To the naked eye, this green immigrant leaf weevil appears to have a green= cuticle=2E A closer look reveals that dense, chitinous scales give it colo= r=2E Read more=2E

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The Bear (and me): During the filming of the N= at Geo documentary series America the Beautiful, now streaming on Disney+, Malia Byrtus spent a lot of time pretending to be a black bear=2E Above, compare= the size of Malia to this bear, which from the toes to the tip of its nose= stood at more than 7 feet=2E Malia managed a group of video camera traps, = deployed deep in the Everglades, to document the little-seen behavior of Fl= orida black bears scratching their backs on trees=2E “They do this,&= #x201D; says photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Carlton Ward Jr=2E, = 1C;to mark their territories and communicate with prospective mates=2E = 1D; We also featured Malia Byrtus in this story=2E
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STORIES WE'RE FOLLOWING
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= Can a new law help Spain move on from its fascist past? (pictured, fore= nsic experts exhuming a mass grave)
A quake destroyed ‘the wickedest cit= y on Earth’
See how seas are reclaiming parts of Louisi= ana—and how the state is battling to stop it
= What are ‘twilight asteroids’? And how could they threaten us= ?
Welcome to Arm= ageddon: It and other early cities are yielding new clues
Multiple COVID= -19 infections can harm the body=2E Here’s how=2E
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Back to the beach: Whether it’s for kit= e flying in the sand or salsa dancing on Sundays, New Yorkers are increasin= gly turning toward the sea=2E Initiatives aimed at bringing residents close= r to water have increased as has the quality of the water, Nat Geo repor= ts=2E “We are really a maritime city, and that’s why I li= ke to call New York more of an aquapolis than a metropolis,” says Merry Camhi, of the New York Seascape program (pictured above, a day at Orchard Beach in the Bronx)=2E
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Visual imagery has the ability to transcend boundaries imposed by language= =2E An image doesn’t need a language to get the message across=2E Th= e image speaks for itself=2E
 
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Documentary filmmaker, Nat Geo Explorer

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All about the stripes: Somehow photographe= r Carl E=2E Akeley managed to show a zebra that= is alert but also seems to be relaxing, says Nat Geo’s senior photo= archivist, Sara Manco=2E This image was taken = in the Athi Plains of Kenya and published in Nat Geo’s March 1909 ed= ition, ahead of a hunt by outgoing President Theodore Ro= osevelt=2E “This is one of my favorite examples of early wi= ldlife photography,” Manco says=2E She adds that Akeley had another = distinction beyond photography—he’s considered the grandfath= er of modern taxidermy=2E
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This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard,= Jen Tse, and Monica Williams=2E Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alec Egamov, and R= ita Spinks also contributed this week=2E We’d love to hear from you = at david=2Ebeard@natg= eo=2Ecom=2E Thanks for reading!
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