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 ...

Dung beetles remove feces from wild animals in forests and thus inhibit the spread of parasites. They work the dung into the ...

Appearance: Black or dark brown. Instead of its hard casing being as smooth as a polished car hood – like many beetle species – S. rugosum's body is covered with bumps, giving it a rugose appearance, ...

Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

The Asian longhorned beetle is a type of longhorn beetle that poses a serious problem to hardwood forests. Although native to Asia, this invasive species has spread throughout parts of North America ...

Rising temperatures are threatening dung beetle populations in the Amazon. The example shows a trend that could bring many insect species there to their heat threshold. Researchers from Würzburg and ...

Due to the winter storm in December 2025, there are many downed trees in North Idaho that are there for the taking by bark beetles.

Officially, Earth boasts roughly two million species. Unofficially, scientists suspect there could be millions — perhaps over 100 million — more. Each year, scientists add thousands of new species to ...

The state Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity has approved new measures to limit the spread of coconut rhinoceros beetles on ...

Gimo Mazembe Daniel receives funding from the National Geographic Society through a research grant (EC-83071R-21). Mount Mabu in north central Mozambique supports the largest continuous block of ...