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A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California ...
“They're really important insects that people use for forensic entomology, and here they are visiting a flower that was thought to mimic carcasses or remains,” says Anne Gaskett, a behavioral ...
Some have been known to live as long as a year without food. Soft Winged Flower Beetle (Collops vittatus) Habitat: Flower beetles are commonly found in cotton fields and other agricultural crops.
Their focus was narrowed to a specific species: the flower beetle. This small scarab beetle lives in the rainforests of southeast Asia and is noted for displaying brilliant colors, ranging from ...
The team of multidisciplinary experts from six universities came together to investigate the relationship between the optical and mechanical properties in the colorful shell of the flower beetle ...
Called a bumble flower beetle, the beetle and its grub larvae are usually found in or near fermenting and/or decomposing organic material like overripe fruit or plants that have sweet sap or other ...
Coconut rhinoceros beetle and a similar species, oriental flower beetle, are nearly indistinguishable until they've grown to their later life stages, which makes early detection difficult.