Although its always exciting to see the big game in the wild, it’s also about the smaller creatures in the animal kingdo ...

Last fall and spring, about 5,000 Laricobius nigrinus beetles — affectionately called Lari by scientists — made an overnight ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dung beetle Striatulus Minor. The portrait was made using a technique called photo stacking, in which the camera is on a ...

Changes in hunting, taxidermy practices and interior decorating are helping make carnivorous insect colonies more popular ...

As temperatures drop, Asian lady beetles are moving indoors to find a warm place to spend the winter, posing potential risks ...

Their staff is working to conserve this threatened species. American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them into preserved meatballs and feed them to their babies. The St.

Taina Conrad at Professor Sandra Steiger's Chair of Evolutionary Animal Ecology, have now published the first study examining the role of acoustic signals in burying beetles (Nicrophorus ...

Christian Deschodt, a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has uncovered two new species of dung beetles over ...

In his latest paper, which also appeared in Zootaxa, Deschodt described yet another new species. Onthophagus pragtig probably ...