Brightly-colored beetles or caterpillars feeding on a tropical plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer and parasitic diseases, report researchers writing in the ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

Jewel beetles are striking insects, easily recognized by their vivid colors and metallic sheen. New research investigated the complex evolutionary history of jewel beetles' vision. Jewel beetles are ...

The Emerald Ash Borer is eating its way across America. Next stop? Utah. This iridescent jewel beetle, responsible for the death of more than 50 million ash trees in the United States, has blazed an ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Colorful beetles that resemble ladybugs — dubbed Asian lady beetles — have appeared in large numbers in some eastern states, including New Jersey, due to warm fall weather, ...

We’ve already had cicadas, ticks, mosquitoes and spotted lanternflies bugging us this year. And now residents of the Northeast could be bracing for another annoyance — swarms of multicolored Asian ...

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London.The ...

We’ve already had cicadas, ticks, mosquitoes and spotted lanternflies bugging us this year. And now New Jerseyans could be bracing for another annoyance — swarms of multicolored Asian lady beetles.

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