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.
Image by Darwinsect, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Goliath Beetles are one of the biggest beetles in the world, and unfortunately, they are also on the brink of extinction. If you are an animal ...
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 ...
Male dung beetles, known as rollers, have a unique method of securing their future. They meticulously craft balls from dung, which serve dual purposes. Females lay their eggs in these balls, known as ...
Crews in West Texas are bulldozing piles of pecan shells in hopes of cracking down on a red flour beetle infestation. The red flour beetle is a type of weevil that infests flour, rice, cornmeal or ...
When a mass extinction event 66 million years ago wiped out three-quarters of the world’s plants and animals – including the dinosaurs – among the survivors was a tiny, black beetle.