Up until now, scientists believed that the world's smallest beetle couldn't fly. They suspected the featherwing beetle, which is less than one-third of a millimetre long, had to be carried by the wind ...

A RARE beetle thought until recently to have died out in Britain has been found living in numbers on a Scottish island. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

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 ...

Professor of Ecology, The Rivers State University of Science and Technology One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...