Tiny worm towers may rely on invasive beetles for transport, according to a study investigating hitchhiking nematodes in ...
The life of a stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) is short and dramatic. Their mating rituals, as seen in this YouTube video, are ...
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 ...
Back in the lab, the team showed how these towers could attach to fruit flies, supporting a long-standing idea: towering ...
Beetles are some of the most diverse animals in the world, with around 400,000 known species living in a wide variety of habitats. They are famed for their particularly hard exoskeleton and powerful ...
Fighting for love: Male stag beetles engage in violent duels to secure mating rights, using their large mandibles to overpower rivals. Pheromone frenzy: Females release scents attracting multiple ...
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 ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — There's a killer out there with a voracious appetite for destruction and only you can help eradicate it. The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ...
Dung beetles perform invaluable ecological and janitorial services, but their influence has long been overlooked. In Great Smoky Mountains, researchers are finally giving much-deserved attention to ...
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 ...