A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They look this way because they're deceptive predators.

Swarms of parasitic wasps will descend upon Kona coffee farms this spring as a long-gestating plan to control an invasive ...

An invasive Mexican beetle, which was first discovered in forestry in Cratloe in south Clare in late 2023, has successfully bred in Ireland for the first time, according to farmers in the affected ...

An image of two male stag beetles battling for mating rights has been announced as the winner of the Close-up photographer of ...

Khamis leads a team that found the larvae of Kenyan mealworm beetles eating through polystyrene, a common type of plastic, with the bacteria in their guts breaking down the material through digestion.

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

is the fact that both the adult beetle and the larvae can be destructive. These beetles are sometimes known as “leaf chafers,” meaning they chew holes in leaves – enough of them can ...

Ecological Role: The Asian Lady Beetle was introduced as a biological control against crop pests. The larvae are larger than most native ladybird larvae and both adults and larvae consume aphids. It ...

Khamis leads a team that found the larvae of Kenyan mealworm beetles eating through polystyrene, a common type of plastic, with the bacteria in their guts breaking down the material through digestion.