(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper to appear in the journal “Naturwissenschaften,” Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Athula Attygalle and his research student, Xiaogang Wu, report for the first time ...

The striking colors of many creatures in nature result from their structures at a microscopic or even nanoscopic level. A good example of this is the metallic coloring of certain beetles. Researchers ...

A Hidden Camera captures a ground beetle feeding on a small slug across damp, moss-covered wood. The beetle grips its prey ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nasa's Biosatellite II experiment studied flour beetle pupae in space. Radiation exposure significantly increased wing ...

Fossilized forewings from two individuals, discovered on the Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica, revealed the first ground beetle known from the southernmost continent. It is also the second beetle for ...

A flightless Japanese beetle is evolving slender and stout builds on one island, a sign that new species can arise without ...

A new peek at the genetics of beetle genitals reveals the underpinnings of a battle of the sexes. When mating, males of Japan’s flightless Carabus beetles insert a chitin-covered appendage that, once ...

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