Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

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A couple of years ago, Sarah Venter wrote an article gently picking apart alarm over the specter of Africa’s iconic baobabs ...

The beetles prefer coconut palms, but native palms (loulu), hala, taro, banana, pineapple, and sugarcane are also on the menu, thereby jeopardizing cultural resources, our agriculture and food ...

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Australian officials have given up on efforts to eradicate an invasive beetle species, calling its spread "inevitable." The shot-hole borer, an invasive beetle, has already destroyed thousands of ...

A new insect has been added to Estonia's official bug roster after entomologist Uno Roosileht identified a previously unlisted ground beetle collected in Southern Estonia.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange ...