The fossa is Madagascar’s ultimate misdirection. Here’s why this predator that looks familiar, acts unexpected and took ...

A fearsome predatory insect, the antlion larva captures, incapacitates, and liquefies its prey before the prey realizes what ...

Scientists call the vast community that carries out this work the necrobiome – a shifting cast of microbes, insects, ...

Entomology is a branch of zoology that is specialized in the study of insects. This discipline deals with insect behavior, ...

A newly discovered beetle on campus has led to the first major update in Japanese ladybird classification in 50 years.

It only took a few seconds and a tug on a monofilament net for Kaua‘i farmer Fletcher Parker to find a dozen adult coconut rhinoceros beetles in a square foot of mulch on the island’s South Shore.

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

State officials are surveying parts of Maui and Molokaʻi for evidence of coconut rhinoceros beetles, and residents near detection sites are being asked to check palm trees for signs of damage after ...

Local conservationists are counting on an army of bugs to combat another army of bugs. According to a news release from the Otsego County Conservation Association, OCCA and Mohican Farm, supported by ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot – the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...