Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the ...

Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

Of the 119 insects collected from the rhinos, blowflies ( Diptera) and beetles ( Coleoptera) were the most abundant and useful for calculating the minimum postmortem interval for each rhino, the team ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

The common raven (Corvus corax) is the type species of the genus Corvus and is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have discovered that burying beetle larvae tend to have lower weights and higher ...

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

The beetles can kill coconut trees, palms and other tropical crops like kalo and banana, once they bore into them.

Multicolored Asian lady beetles, which are not ladybugs, find nooks and crannies in houses during fall as the harvest season ...

While some animals hunker down for winter hibernation or fly south to escape the cold, the multicolored Asian lady beetle has ...

This temporary ecosystem materializes almost immediately after death, drawing in a succession of organisms that thrive on the ...

Unicorn plants (Proboscidea louisianica) are also known as devil’s claws, cow catchers and mule-grab plants. The plants are low growing (1.7-feet high), spreading and hug the ground when mature.