This week Backyard Farmer, will scout for problems at the garden & show you the difference beetles. On this week’s Backyard Farmer, we’ll scout for problems at the garden and show you the difference ...

Appearance: Black or dark brown. Instead of its hard casing being as smooth as a polished car hood – like many beetle species – S. rugosum's body is covered with bumps, giving it a rugose appearance, ...

Beetles, like other insects, depend on diuretic and antidiuretic hormones to control water balance. We have isolated, using head extracts from the beetle Tenebrio molitor, a peptide that strongly ...

It seems there’s always a new destructive insect pest ready to move in and chomp on New Jersey’s trees. In the south, the southern pine beetle has been eating through the Pinelands National Reserve, ...

A beetle which carries a fungus that rapidly kills trees – thousands of oak and maple trees in Johannesburg, George, Knysna, Durban and Pietermaritzburg have already been wiped out – has now invaded ...

American burying beetle parents work together to find and bury a dead animal that its brood can consume after hatching. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

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 ...