Even for insects, wood is a tough food source as it contains hard substances such as cellulose. To help make wood more palatable, some wood-feeding insects are assisted by symbiotic microorganisms ...

UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, researchers studying a common wood-feeding beetle uncovered a complex digestive system that can turn wood into useful biofuels, ...

WORCESTER, Mass. -- A wood-devouring beetle has gained a foothold in New England, and authorities plan to cut down large numbers of infested trees and grind them up to stop the pest from spreading to ...

Arlington, Va. — It has been more than four years since Mary Gallagher noticed the small piles of ‘‘sawdust'' beneath her imported, carved-wood elephant and watched, stunned, as tiny beetles scampered ...

I can draw a clear line from my phobia of flesh-eating beetles to The Mummy (1999), in which a CGI scarab beetle burrows into a man’s hand and crawls up his arm. Real scarab beetles, I have since ...

Which energy type promotes the biodiversity of beetles living in dead wood in the forest? That depends entirely on where the beetles are in the food chain. Energy is the key to life. For decades, ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

A couple of days ago, I was working on the grapevines tying up some wayward canes and removing unwanted growth when all of a sudden a huge brown beetle fell from the vines and clung to my bare arm ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange ...