(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper to appear in the journal “Naturwissenschaften,” Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Athula Attygalle and his research student, Xiaogang Wu, report for the first time ...

The striking colors of many creatures in nature result from their structures at a microscopic or even nanoscopic level. A good example of this is the metallic coloring of certain beetles. Researchers ...

A hidden macro wildlife camera captured an incredible close-up of a giant ground beetle as it hunted across the moss-covered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 157 years, scientists have wished they could understand the evolutionary relationships of a curious South American ground beetle that was missing a distinctive feature of the huge family of ground ...

Fossilized forewings from two individuals, discovered on the Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica, revealed the first ground beetle known from the southernmost continent. It is also the second beetle for ...