When tending to your garden beds, the sight of green and copper-colored beetles can understandably make your heart sink. It's hard to mistake these characteristics of the Japanese beetle (Popillia ...

The team found 1,457 flowers, in both male and female phases, and cut many open with a dissection needle right on the spot. About 250 of them had bugs trapped inside. Most of them were flies from ...

Microstructural design for mechanical–optical multifunctionality in the exoskeleton of the flower beetle Torynorrhina flammea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2021; 118 (25 ...

Some mean-looking outlaws are in a showdown to snag this year's Ugly Bug title, with the blood-sucking bedbug, dung beetle and a sinister wasp that hatches deadly larvae contending for a top spot.

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 ...

The new Beetle, which sold 80,000 models in the U.S. in 1999, was advertised with slogans such as, “The engine is in the front, but the heart is in the same place” and “A work of art with ...

The microstructures that give flower beetles’ exoskeletons their dazzling iridescence also enhance structural strength, according to a research team led by mechanical engineer Ling Li of ...

Thu., Sept. 22, 2022 The bumble flower beetle has been making an appearance in local gardens. It favors decaying fruit and organic matter and is not considered a major pest right now.

Researchers found a Cretaceous-era beetle trapped in amber alongside pollen, strengthening the argument that ancient insects may be responsible for the rise in flowering plant life. Dustin Manduffie / ...

This final note. The Volkswagen Beetle is getting a makeover, for only the second time in its 73-year history. Please don't call this the "New" B… ...

Tiny electronic backpack mounted on back of giant flower beetle allows scientists to instruct it to take off, land or change directions. By Agency 20 March 2015 • 2:47pm .