A zookeeper shows off an American burying beetle at the St. Louis Zoo. Their staff is working to conserve this threatened species. American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them ...

One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...

Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new collaborative study by ...

The Town of Shrewsbury has successfully eradicated its population of the Asian long-horned beetle, an invasive insect that kills trees. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ...

Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...

Rove beetles are among the chemists of the insect world, concocting noxious compounds within their bodies that are weaponized to ward off predators, enabling the beetles to survive in leaf litter and ...

These beetles possess the ultimate explosive power. When threatened, they release a hot, noxious chemical spray that can deter predators in an instant. With their shape-shifting abilities, mimic ...

The research began when the natural history museum at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad started running out of freezer space due to a steady flow of donated roadkill and injured birds. "We don't have ...

Deep in the rainforests of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, a deceptively simple field technique helped reveal beetles that science had never formally recognised. Canadian entomologist François Génier ...