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

Quick Take Collectors generally pay between $470 and $938 for a single Hercules beetle specimen. One Hercules beetle fetched ...

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

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

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

Insects come in all different shapes and sizes, a result of thousands of years of evolution. Beetles are extremely diverse and are the largest order within the Insecta class. With over 350,000 ...

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

Arizona has about 2,500 beetle species. Beetles are identified by their hard, sheathlike front wings; six legs; and distinct head, thorax and abdomen. Most beetles are harmless but some, such as ...

Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl into tight balls. Because they share space with ants and beetles, many ...

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests ...

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