Some species are unisexual and reproduce by parthenogenesis.

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

New metallic beetle species, Konradus trescrucensis, is discovered in the Andes. It has adapted to extremely cold weather.

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the researchers compared beetles allowed to mate freely with groups of the same ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

BERKELEY — Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honor of former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch. Bembidion brownorum was last seen in 1966, but it hadn’t been ...

CBP officers intercepted a Ctonoxylon spinifer Eggers, or an African bark beetle, in a traveler’s belongings during a routine inspection in February, officials said Thursday. The 3-millimeter-long bug ...

CBP at Detroit seized a Ctonoxylon bark beetle in Ivory Coast bark; USDA says the pest could threaten Texas fig and olive ...

Smaller than a centimeter and capable of destroying trees, a potentially destructive species of beetle almost made its way ...

The roughly three-millimetre insect was found in bark from Ivory Coast and was brought in by a passenger heading to Texas.

An insect intercepted amid the belongings of a passenger at Detroit Metro has since been identified as a potentially ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...