Many insects have evolved to protect themselves from predators. For example, different types of beetles have adopted defenses ...

But Gabor Lovei, a researcher in New Zealand, remains undaunted, having devised a fascinating new way to study beetles at night. NOVA: Can you describe night-active ground beetles and explain what ...

Not all beetles have such fanciful names as fireflies and ladybugs. But many of them have something more important in common: ...

Our six millionth specimen to be digitised is a ground beetle Calosoma sycophanta, known as the forest caterpillar hunter.

An exotic beetle native to the Mediterranean basin has arrived in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, where it’s infested homes with ...

All bombardier beetles are in one of two subfamilies of ground beetles called Brachininae and Paussinae, with more than 50 genera combined. Bombardier beetles have not been evaluated for their ...

There are hundreds of species of bombardier beetles living around the world, found on every continent except Antarctica. They are small ground beetles (Carabidae) that can typically be found in leaf ...