The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web — ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ...

There isn’t much data available to the wider public on the Calathus lundbladi ground beetle. This elusiveness is in no small part due to the little bug’s position on the International Union for ...

Insects, due to their vast numbers, are perhaps the most understudied animal group in the world. But Gabor Lovei, a researcher in New Zealand, remains undaunted, having devised a fascinating new way ...

image: Researchers from The University of Tsukuba used microscopy techniques to get an in-depth look at the exoskeleton of the ground beetle. Polarizing optical microscopy showed Maltese cross ...

Researchers explore the microstructure of the ground beetle exoskeleton using microscopy. The striking colors of many creatures in nature result from their structures at a microscopic or even ...

Two new populations of the UK’s largest and rarest beetles have been discovered on Dartmoor in Devon, less than 30 years after it was thought to be extinct in Britain. The blue ground beetle, which ...

While working in your garden, have you ever turned over a rock or raked up some wet leaves and been startled to see a large, black beetle scurry away faster than a speeding bullet? That “super insect” ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When frogs and toads see Epomis beetle larvae waggling their antennae and jiggling their jaws, ...