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 ...

TULSA, Okla.— The Center for Biological Diversity will host a community event in Tulsa on Saturday, Nov. 5, to celebrate a new mural of the American burying beetle, a vibrant endangered insect. The ...

Keepers at the Cincinnati Zoo are aiming to reintroduce a beetle species to Ohio by 2023.The Cincinnati Zoo's World of the Insect keepers have been working to reintroduce the American burying beetle ...

The American burying beetle is considered endangered in the state of Missouri, and a team with the Saint Louis Zoo is working to reintroduce them to the area. Dan Kirk/Saint Louis Zoo The American ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s downlisting of the American burying beetle from endangered to threatened. The lawsuit asks ...

Environmentalists say a Fish and Wildlife Service decision to downlist protections for the beetle ignores the ongoing threat of climate change. The American burying beetle resurfaces in court next ...

COBLESKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) – SUNY Cobleskill’s Environmental Management Program was awarded $140,026 through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Recovery Challenge Grant initiative to reintroduce the ...

On September 30, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in a case challenging the agency’s final ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service in 2019 downlisted the beetle from endangered to threatened. A federal appellate court panel dug deeply and at times skeptically Tuesday into the Fish and Wildlife ...

If you’re a burying beetle, you bury a small carcass, such as a mouse, and use it as a food source for your larvae. If you’re an ecologist-artist like Tracie Hayes, a doctoral candidate in the ...

Biologists are accustomed to hearing stories of microbes manipulating their host – a fungus that turns ants into suicidal zombies, a protozoan that makes rats seek out cat urine – but there are few ...