The post These Beetles Turn Dead Animals into Carefully Prepared Nurseries appeared first on A-Z Animals. Meet the common sexton beetle: a clever arthropod that uses dead bodies to raise its young.
A study of one male Licinus depressus and five predation events found that the beetle rapidly alternated shell breaking and ...
A beetle’s back does not look like wings. It looks like a shell, hard and glossy, split down the middle by a straight seam. That seam is the clue. The two halves are the front pair of wings, thickened ...
A zookeeper shows off an American burying beetle at the St. Louis Zoo. Their staff is working to conserve this threatened species. American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them ...
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 ...
Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new collaborative study by ...
Dung beetle on top of its ball of dung. Source: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons When a fresh pile of dung hits the ground, it isn’t long before the dung beetles arrive. There are so many dung beetles ...
One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...
In the United States, children typically seek furry companions like dogs, cats, or hamsters, representing warmth and affection. However, in Japan, a starkly different trend emerges—beetles, ...
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