Ant colonies are well-defended fortresses. The social insects quickly sniff out most intruders and kill them to protect their ...

And then there’s Sceptobius lativentris. Parker’s research revealed that the adult beetles turn off their ability to produce ...

Most of us think of beetles as small creatures flying through the air or scurrying across the ground to get to their ...

S. lativentris beetles evade detection — and attack — by grooming the ants to harvest chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons ...

Bark beetles are attacking trees all over Colorado, but their effects are widely up for debate. The question: Do they ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain ...

A temperate tunneling species of dung beetle seems capable of adapting to climate change, but their tropical cousins may be ...

The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle wreaking havoc on America's ash trees. We explain how it got here and how it is ...

Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists ...

Larimer County will likely be seeing more red, in the form of rust-colored ponderosa pines affected by mountain pine beetles.

A new ladybird beetle species was hiding in plain sight on a Japanese campus, exposing how easily even well-studied insects ...