Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

Some species are unisexual and reproduce by parthenogenesis.

New metallic beetle species, Konradus trescrucensis, is discovered in the Andes. It has adapted to extremely cold weather.

CBP officers intercepted a Ctonoxylon spinifer Eggers, or an African bark beetle, in a traveler’s belongings during a routine inspection in February, officials said Thursday. The 3-millimeter-long bug ...

Smaller than a centimeter and capable of destroying trees, a potentially destructive species of beetle almost made its way ...

An insect intercepted amid the belongings of a passenger at Detroit Metro has since been identified as a potentially ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

The roughly three-millimetre insect was found in bark from Ivory Coast and was brought in by a passenger heading to Texas.

BERKELEY — Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honor of former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch. Bembidion brownorum was last seen in 1966, but it hadn’t been ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists intercepted a potentially destructive bark beetle from the Ivory ...