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 ...

There isn’t much data available to the wider public on the Calathus lundbladi ground beetle. This elusiveness is in no small part due to the little bug’s position on the International Union for ...

The busy ground beetles' diet can help control slugs, asparagus beetles, caterpillars, Colorado potato beetles, corn earworms, cutworms, squash vine borers and tobacco budworms. This article is part ...

While working in your garden, have you ever turned over a rock or raked up some wet leaves and been startled to see a large, black beetle scurry away faster than a speeding bullet? That “super insect” ...

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 ...

Ozaena ground beetles likely have anatomical adaptations enabling them to parasitize ant nests throughout their life cycle, according to a new study. Ozaena ground beetles likely have anatomical ...

Community Ecology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2014), pp. 131-138 (8 pages) Environmental stress can lead to a reduction in developmental homeostasis, which could be reflected in increased variability of ...

Five years ago I wrote "In mid-June and with no forewarning my patio was invaded by an army of insects. One weekend I was entertaining friends and toddlers in the backyard and the next weekend I was ...

We’ve all seen them: Those big, black iridescent beetles that come running out when you’re out weeding in the garden. Although they’re commonly known as carabid or ground beetles, entomologist Sharon ...

Two new populations of the UK’s largest and rarest beetles have been discovered on Dartmoor in Devon, less than 30 years after it was thought to be extinct in Britain. The blue ground beetle, which ...