Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum. Beetles, butterflies and insects of all sorts are on display at the Frost Entomology Museum at Penn State ...

With more than 350,000 described species, and many more still waiting to be discovered, beetles are among the most diverse and resilient creatures on Earth, thriving in nearly every environment from ...

Beetles are an extremely diverse group of insects on the planet. There are about a million or more described species of insects that we know of so far, and of those about 400,000 are beetles. Some ...

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 ...

Hercules beetles are among the largest flying insects in the world, with males of some subspecies measuring up to 6.8 inches (17.2 centimeters) long. They are also extraordinarily strong and can lift ...

In his fierce, unending war against the insects, man is getting exactly nowhere. There may be as many as 2,500,000 species of insects infesting the world, and in the U.S. alone about 10,000 of them ...

Meet Excastra albopilosa, a newly identified species of longhorn beetle that rocks an unusually fluffy white coat. Discovered in Australia, the fuzzy-looking arthropod also has distinct, separated eye ...

The number of insect species is mind-boggling — and they are a critical part of the environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.