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 ...

A beetle enthusiast from County Antrim has recorded a beetle species not seen in Ireland for nearly 100 years.

Beetles are intriguing insects that come in many shapes and sizes. These characteristics are also the easiest way to distinguish the critters, aside from location. With over 400,000 identified species ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have identified three new aquatic beetle species — two in Telangana and one in ...

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 ...