The predaceous diving beetle is well designed to be a ruthless hunter. The larva is long and slender, with sickle-like jaws. The powerful jaws have canals through which the creature pumps ...

Both the larva and the adult are voracious predators. My dead adult diving beetle had previously been flying around (they use the moon to guide their flight, so are often drawn to bright lights ...

J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...

All are voracious predators, such as the Great Diving Beetle, which is common in Europe. Both larva and adult stalk small fish or tadpoles underwater, until they pounce and subdue them with pointy ...

“Then I saw a beetle swim past ... started to suspect that the diving beetles might be nibbling on pupfish eggs here and there. But for one to take down a larva twice its size?

Over a six-year period, they found a decline in diving beetle numbers and species diversity, particularly in ponds isolated from each other or other water bodies. The study has recently been ...

The sperm of the male diving beetle is seriously strange: Instead of swimming in the female reproductive tract on their own, individual sperm cells often stick together in pairs, in clusters and ...

Scientists in Taiwan have revealed how a diving beetle hangs on to its mate underwater. The micro-scale study revealed how bristles on male beetles' legs attach to females with tiny suckers or ...