Although they're often confused with the iridescent green June beetles, which are basically harmless to your garden, these ...
With over 1.5 million species of beetles crawling around the globe, it’s no surprise that about 2,500 of them call Arizona home — lucky us. But don’t panic, most are harmless, just out here living ...
As endangered species go, it's not the most glamorous: a brownish, ladybug-sized water beetle with lines of black dots along its back. But the endangered Hungerford's crawling water beetle is unique ...
If you love your lilies in your garden, you may be living a gardening nightmare. The lily leaf beetle is eating its way across Michigan’s lilies. It’s been said we need to know our enemy. There are ...
It's easy to imagine an adult bird standing over youngsters with mouths open wide for a pre-mashed meal. It's more difficult to picture a beetle doing this, but the burying beetle Nicrophorus ...
D.C. area homeowners can blame it on the rain if they are seeing a lot more beetles crawling around their houses that are gobbling up their plants. All the rain that has fallen over the past year is ...
Have you ever seen a small, speckled brown and white bug on your rug and wondered what it was? Chances are, it was a carpet beetle. If you spot one or two in your space, don’t panic—the creepy ...
Burying beetles haul mouse carcasses into the dirt and prep them to start a family. Insects called burying beetles haul mouse carcasses down into the dirt and prep them to feed their future offspring.
Zoologists exposed hundreds of burying beetles to two levels of parental care, for 13 generations. The researchers found that when parents fed meat to their babies' mouth-to-mouth, the larvae evolved ...