Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

Burying beetles spray corpses with fluid from their mouths and anuses, roll them into balls, and drag them underground, but ...

Meet Excastra albopilosa, a newly identified species of longhorn beetle that rocks an unusually fluffy white coat. Discovered in Australia, the fuzzy-looking arthropod also has distinct, separated eye ...

Beetles are fascinating creatures, and some people even keep them as pets. However, don’t rush out to the garden and just stick some beetles in a jar! If you’re going to keep pet beetles, you need to ...

An illustration of the beetle named after Joel Sartore by Kevin Lievano, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Scientists have named a new beetle species after National Geographic ...

A 15-year beetle experiment spanning 156 generations is forcing scientists to rethink what actually keeps a species alive when populations shrink and inbreeding takes hold. The answer involves mate ...

Australian scientists discovered two new giant stick insect species and fixed an old mix-up with a third. Researchers have ...

Much debate has surrounded the question of the heaviest beetle for decades, with no one species yet conclusively determined to be the definitive record holder. Weights of around 40–50 g (1.4–1.7 oz) ...

Six new beetle species have been discovered in South America by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Among them is one with a distinctively shaped sexual organ that has led the researchers to ...