What looks like a plant’s failed fruit may actually be a clever deal that lets both the plant and its pollinating beetles ...
Larvae of the European black oil beetle, which are orange, ride bees to their nests and then chow down on bee eggs. © Hjalte Kjærby via iNaturalist under CC BY-NC 4 ...
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 ...
Extension entomologist Ben Thrash reveals which soybean insects threaten yields and which farmers can safely ignore in new ...
Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove ...
Volkswagen hasn’t made a Beetle for nearly seven years now, as the final one rolled off the line down in Mexico, at the Puebla facility, back in mid-2019, thus putting an end to a long era and a very ...
Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...
Fabio Cortesi receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Lily Fogg previously received a Research Training Program scholarship from the Australian Government. The deep sea is cold, dark ...
Japanese scarab beetles (Popillia japonica) are a significant pest and strictly quarantined outside Japan. Female beetles attract mates with a mating hormone, japonilure, but males only respond to one ...
How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising ...
Sticky traps can be part of an adult scouting program, but visual counts on plants are often just as effective when done consistently. Monitoring soybean fields for rotation-adapted western corn ...
The bagworm moth larvae spend all their time in a specially constructed shelter made from silk and leaves or twigs. This is how it works.