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 ...

A squirrel named Thumbelina was rescued when her nest was destroyed by construction in New York City. Her owner now posts videos of her doing random things and living her best life. This video shows ...

Japanese scarab beetles (Popillia japonica) are a significant pest and strictly quarantined outside Japan. Female beetles attract mates with a mating hormone, japonilure, but males only respond to one ...

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 ...

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead ...

One thing you find out fast while driving a vintage Volkswagen Beetle is that everyone over a certain age has a Volkswagen Beetle story. I had the nicely restored 1964 Beetle you see here—property of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...

During that time, 21,529,464 examples were produced, more than any other automotive nameplate except the Toyota Corolla, which was built on many unrelated platforms as a Corolla in name only. The VW ...

Matt Shreiner is a tree climber with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. He prepares to ascend a tree in Shrewsbury this August as part of his search for Asian longhorned beetle ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service did not violate the Endangered Species Act when it downlisted the carrion beetle to “threatened” instead of “endangered” in 2020, the court found. A federal appeals court ...

In the hot dunes of Southern Africa’s Namib Desert, the black beetle Onymacris plana runs fast for its tiny size. Turns out, the speed not only helps the beetles find food but also, perhaps, cool down ...