Nature is filled with colorful creatures, and beetles are no exception. Usually, when we think of beetles, the image that comes to mind is the common black insect that we see everywhere. However, ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there’s a whole world of creatures that look like they were painted by a surrealist. Here ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Beetles that can see the color red? That s exactly what scientists discovered in two Mediterranean species that defy the norm of insect vision. While most insects are blind to red, these beetles use ...

We’ve already had cicadas, ticks, mosquitoes and spotted lanternflies bugging us this year. And now residents of the Northeast could be bracing for another annoyance — swarms of multicolored Asian ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth’s ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

The June bug is also called the May beetle or June beetle. There are over 100 species of June bugs, and all of them start their lives as white grubs once they hatch from their eggs. These grubs can ...

Late on the night of March 27, 2025, a researcher walking through the forest on Barro Colorado Island, a 15-square-kilometer ...

We’ve already had cicadas, ticks, mosquitoes and spotted lanternflies bugging us this year. And now New Jerseyans could be bracing for another annoyance — swarms of multicolored Asian lady beetles.