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The Colorado State Forest Service released its annual report on the health of the state’s forests last week, and it showed the growing shadow of a lingering threat. The spruce beetle has now replaced ...

It may be less than half an inch long and have questionable personal hygiene, but a species of dung beetle has won the title of world's strongest insect. In tests, male horned dung beetles were able ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

In the corner of a large, dim warehouse inside the Port of Oakland, Edel Gaingalas swings a hammer into a piece of wood. She’s looking for larvae — the wood, pried off a shipping crate, is riddled ...

A Pinacate beetle explores the University of Washington campus in Seattle with a tiny camera on its back. (UW Photo / Mark Stone) Here’s what happens when a GoPro goes low — really low, as in insect ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It’s official: the American burying beetle is now Rhode Island’s state insect. Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the bill into law Wednesday and also announced a beetle-drawing ...

The bug, one of 30 types of oil beetles in Europe, has been named insect of the year for Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Known for its healing properties and deadly toxic secretions, it is also an ...

There is, despite the name, nothing urban about Piper City, Ill. It is a farm town with a skyline of grain elevators, a tidy grid of pitch-roofed houses and, a few blocks beyond, endless fields: corn, ...

The Bizarre, Beetle-Biased World of Social Insect ExploitationMeet the myrmecophiles: "ant-loving" creatures that rank amongst the bizarrest animals known. Their weird shapes and forms are matched ...