By mimicking the structure of a leaf beetle, researchers have developed a superhydrophobic surface resistant to water droplet ...

Small red and orange insects with spots have been giving ladybugs a bad rap for the havoc they've been causing.

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have discovered that burying beetle larvae tend to have lower weights and higher ...

American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them into preserved meatballs and feed them to their babies.

The beetles can kill coconut trees, palms and other tropical crops like kalo and banana, once they bore into them.

Hawaii is making an effort to stop the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive species that is threatening the ...

Earth. A massive asteroid impact led to the extinction of diverse life forms from the planet, including the mighty dinosaurs.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

Hawaii is stepping up its efforts to stop the spread of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive species that "jeopardizes the economy, the entire ecosystem, agriculture and food security ...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO have used genomic analysis to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of more than 300 darkling beetle species. Darkling beetles belong to ...