Volkswagen could have replaced the Beetle with a mid-engined, water-cooled hatchback, but it ended up being one of the foundations for the Golf. The Type 1 would eventually be named Käfer, the German ...

Introduced during World War 2 and built until 2003, the Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most iconic automobiles ever produced. And with about 21.5 million units sold, it is also one of the ...

Blister beetles are common in Arizona and secrete a toxic substance called cantharidin that causes skin blistering. These beetles are attracted to flowering plants, crops like alfalfa, and areas with ...

Asian lady beetles, which look similar to ladybugs, are often most noticeable in spring and fall in Tennessee. While the beetles are considered largely beneficial, here's what to know about keeping ...

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

The Volkswagen Beetle, also known as the Type 1, Käfer, or Bug, is a rear-engine economy car manufactured by Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. Initially conceived as a "people's car" by Adolf Hitler for ...

Volkswagen hasn’t made a Beetle for nearly seven years now, as the final one rolled off the line down in Mexico, at the Puebla facility, back in mid-2019, thus putting an end to a long era and a very ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

Tijo is an engineer, mechanic, and an avid content creator with over 5 years of experience as an automotive journalist. His media and publishing journey began with CarHP and CarIndigo, and soon ...

[This story originally appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of MotorTrend Classic.] You might’ve heard this one before: In Europe, heaven is a place where the British are the policemen, the French are ...