There are only two known populations of the Miami tiger beetle in the world. Both, as the insect’s name suggests, are located around Miami, in rare pine rocklands habitat. Because of the beetle’s ...

When night falls, a high-stakes acrobatic drama takes the stage, a swirl of bats hunting insects, trying to outmaneuver each other in aerial pursuit and escape. Science reporter Ari Daniel has the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to finalize critical habitat for endangered Miami tiger beetles by May 8. The announcement marks a legal victory for the Center ...

A rare little bug from the salt marshes near Lincoln has found its way into Jane Goodall's new book on how endangered species are being rescued from extinction. Goodall, one of the world's most ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation filed a petition today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Siuslaw ...

Tiger-beetles might confirm that I, too, suffer a bit of velleity. A powerful but culturally ignored word, “velleity” used to be defined as “volition in its weakest form.” I say “used to” because the ...

A history of taxonomic descriptions of tiger beetles (Cicindelidae) is presented from 1758, when the first species were described by Carl von Linné, to present day. The number of new species over 50 ...

Tiger beetles (cicindela) are reported to be one of the fastest terrestrial arthropods on earth. Tiger beetles are highly predaceous, visually cued hunters that live in a variety of open habitats.

Today I want to share my relatively recent interest in a group of insects called tiger beetles. I find them beautiful, interesting and a challenge to see well enough to photograph or capture for ...

If an insect drew a line as it chased its next meal, the resulting pattern would be a tangled mess. But there’s method to that mess: It turns out the tiger beetle, known for its speed and agility, ...