Some species are unisexual and reproduce by parthenogenesis.

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 ...

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 ...

An insect intercepted amid the belongings of a passenger at Detroit Metro has since been identified as a potentially ...

New metallic beetle species, Konradus trescrucensis, is discovered in the Andes. It has adapted to extremely cold weather.

Smaller than a centimeter and capable of destroying trees, a potentially destructive species of beetle almost made its way ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists intercepted a potentially destructive bark beetle from the Ivory ...

CBP officers intercepted a Ctonoxylon spinifer Eggers, or an African bark beetle, in a traveler’s belongings during a routine inspection in February, officials said Thursday. The 3-millimeter-long bug ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

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 ...