Television personality and model Heidi Klum arrives at her 15th Annual Halloween Party at TAO Downtown on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
A Month’s-End Associated Press (AP) Photographic Celebration Of: BUG
Today is May 31, the last day of the month, which means that once again our monthly allotment of 30 Associated Press photos, for which we pay strong-dollar currency, expires at the stroke of midnight. As always, and we think somewhat unfairly, unused image-downloads don’t roll over to the next month. May’s end brings June, the unofficial opening of Insect Season, with the creeping and the crawling and the picnic-ruining (has anyone really ever let ants ruin their picnic), and we’re not sure how many of those we have left, so slather on some Deep Woods OFF!® insect repellant, or maybe some of that natural citrus spray that burns your skin and doesn’t really work so well in our experience, and regard our offering of a gallery of BUG images from the Associated Press.
Gardening Good Bugs – A ladybug sits on a leaf in a greenhouse in New Market, Va., Sunday, March 9, 2008. Ladybugs are among the most efficient of the beneficial insects, particularly for home gardeners. The adults and larvae feed voraciously on aphids and mites, among other plant pests. Both are available from certain nurseries and mail-order suppliers. (AP Photo/Dean Fosdick)SUPER BUGS – Dr. Rajendra Kapila of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, poses by x-rays of a patient with antibiotic-resistant staph infections, Sept. 1, 2004. Kapila and other experts say these sometimes-deadly super bugs increasingly are striking healthy people with no connection to a hospital, including athletes and children, forcing doctors to rethink how they treat patients with skin infections. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)Bug Exhibit – A Giant African Millipede perks up on an entomologist’s hand at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Cockrell Butterfly Center Wednesday, May 23, 2007. The new interactive exhibit of live exotic insects will open to the public May 25. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)NYC Bedbugs – In this Jan. 25, 2008, file photo, Carl Massicott, with Advanced K9 Detectives, leads his beagle dog Radar on a demonstration of how they sniff for bed bugs, during a visit to New York. One of every 15 New Yorkers battled bedbugs last year, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to fight the spreading infestation, including a public-awareness campaign and a top entomologist to head the effort. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews,File)MAYOR BUGGED ABSCAM – Philadelphia City Councilman John Street, left, is seen in his office in this April 13, 1981 photo, with KYW television reporter Tyree Johnson, second left. Now-Mayor John Street was a mere freshman city councilman 24 years ago when he led the charge against a corrupt old guard in Philadelphia politics during the notorious Abscam investigation. Now, in the flagging weeks of his mayoral re-election campaign, the man often viewed as overbearing but honest finds his administration embroiled in its own FBI investigation. (AP Photo)Fashionable Horse – Three Appaloosa horses sport their personal fly masks as they dine on hay while waiting transportation back to Troy, Mo., following their competing in the 2010 World Championship Appaloosa Youth Show in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, July 1, 2010. The fly masks protect the horses eyes from flies and other winged bugs, as well as UV-rays. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Bye Bye Bugs – In this June 27, 2017 file photo, mayflies swarm around the bright lights of a ballpark during a baseball game in Cincinnati. Experts say light pollution is a big problem for some species of insects. Certain bugs are attracted to brightness, where they become easy prey and expend energy they should be using to get food, said University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Emirates Amusement Parks – Mohamed Khalifa al-Mubarak, the chairman of both Miral and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism, second left, claps for a Bugs Bunny character during a news conference organized by the Warner Bros. World amusement park, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Abu Dhabi will open the $1 billion indoor amusement park this July, officials announced Wednesday, the latest offering in a crowded market in the United Arab Emirates where one marquee park already faces serious financial problems. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)Swine Flu Bird Flu – This Aug. 16, 1957, file photo of Dr. Joseph Ballinger giving Marjorie Hill, a nurse at Montefiore Hospital in New York, the first Asian flu vaccine shot to be administered in New York City. The hospital’s entire staff is being inoculated. Some scientists are worried that the current swine flu and bird flu –possibly in Asia, where bird flu is endemic — might combine into a new bug that is both highly contagious and lethal and can spread around the world. Experts have long feared that bird flu could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. The past three flu pandemics — the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957-58 Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 — were all linked to birds, though some scientists believe pigs also played a role in 1918. (AP Photo, File)Diaper Bag Bugged – Teri Anne Smith is seen in an undated photo provided by the Davis County jail. Electronic eavesdropping charges will stand against Smith, accused of bugging a diaper bag to monitor conversations between her ex-husband and children, Judge Robert Dale has ruled. Smith, 37, is charged with wiretapping or intercepting electronic communications. Court documents say she recorded the conversations in 2012, the Standard-Examiner of Ogden reported. (Davis County jail via AP)Imported Superbug – This illustration made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Shigella bacteria. On Thursday, April 2, 2015, the CDC said a drug-resistant strain of a stomach bug made its way into the U.S. and spread, causing more than 200 illnesses since last May. Many cases were traced to people who had recently traveled to the Dominican Republic, India or other countries. (AP Photo/CDC)NFL Combine Football – North Carolina wide receiver Bug Howard runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)SAFE AT HOME – Anthony Batista, right, of the Mine Safety Appliances Safety Squad tells homeowner Kim Regan about the benefits of the ear plags and safety glasses he gave her after stopping by in his decorated “safety bug” while seeing Regan and her son working in their yard Monday, Aug. 23, 2004, in Seven Fields, Pa. The company surveyed consumers who purchased equipment for home projects from big-box stores and found the thought of protective gear did not even occur to 92 percent of them, despite clearly marked warnings by manufacturers. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)MAYOR BUGGED – FBI director Robert Mueller looks over papers on the podium before his speech at the annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 24, 2003. An FBI bug discovered more than two weeks ago in Philadelphia Mayor John Street’s office did not record any incriminating words from him, a federal government offical speaking on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press Friday. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)BUGS GLOBAL WARMING – Brandy Jacobsen, mammals collection manager at the University Alaska’s Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska, shows the remains of a vole cleaned by tiny dermestid beetles in the museum’s preparation lab Tuesday Dec. 6, 2005. The use of the beetles is a process used by museums for decades because of the dermestid beetle’s unmatched ability to strip bones without damaging even the smallest, most delicate specimens. That skill is increasingly crucial today in gauging the long-term implications of climate change, particularly in the arctic where effects of warming appear first and with greater intensity. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)SPACE SHUTTLE – Resident Bugs Arriola looks at a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003 in Nacogdoches, Texas. People have been told not to touch any of the debris as there could be toxic chemicals on the material. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)Britain Insects – Dried insects and insect spices are displayed at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The exhibition of Illuminated room-high insect traps, dramatic Iight projections of creepy crawlies and 3D printing of food made from bugs is a new installation called Insects au Gratin which explores the benefits of eating bugs, as part of a new season called Who’s the Pest? organised with Pestival – the cultural organisation dedicated to our relationship with insects and the natural world. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)CLINTON SOCIAL SECURITY Y2K – President Clinton speaks at a White House event Monday, Dec. 28, 1998, dealing with the year 2000 computer bug and Social Security. Clinton said that the millennium bug will not delay the payment of Social Security checks. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)BUNDY’S CAR – The 1968 Volkswagon Bug that belonged to serial killer Ted Bundy sits in the corner of a rental lot waiting for a buyer Tuesday, July 15, 1997 in Salt Lake City. Owner Lonnie Anderson, who bought the beige car in an auction in the mid 1970’s, has placed an ad in the New York Times to sell the car after letting it sit in this spot since he purchased it for $925. He’s asking $25,000 for the car. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)
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