About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Spring arrives, and with it, the magnolias. Their enormous pink and white blooms unfurl in many parts of the world, but if you look closely at them, you might see a beetle land on the flowers — not a ...

Why does this gigantic beetle sound like a jackhammer? Learn all about the incredible Hercules beetle in our short recap.

Very few Burke Museum visitors realize that thousands of secret workers are helping make the museum's animal specimen ...

At least 37 giant live beetles measuring 4 to 5 inches have been found concealed inside of multiple packages of Japanese snacks, potato chips and chocolate at LAX.

Bombardier beetles have the infamous ability to synthesize and release rapid bursts of stinky, burning-hot liquid from their rear ends. These noxious emissions can kill other insects, or startle ...

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the ...

The dung beetle is the first and only non-human animal known to use light from the Milky Way for navigation. African dung beetles rely on the bright stripe of Milky Way’s starlight, using it as a ...

With its shiny, black and fiery body and orange-tipped antennae, the American burying beetle is a vibrant beauty of the bug world. The insect's occupation, though, is a little less glamorous. After ...

Beetles - a group of insects also known as Coleoptera - make up more than a quarter of all known animal species on our planet. Many of these insects play important roles in their ecosystems. While we ...

Discover all you need to know about these fascinating insects. What is a dung beetle? Dung beetles get their name from their diet of animal poo. Wherever there are herbivorous mammals leaving ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows. Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already ...