There are so many different species of beetles, each with its own unique appearance and set of traits. Among all these beetles, have you ever heard of the great diving beetle? As its name suggests, ...

When it comes to wooing a female, male diving beetles don't have it easy: A male must latch onto his mate underwater, as she wriggles about erratically like a tiny bucking bronco. During courtship, ...

Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles (mouthparts). It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Baby diving beetles sport bifocals, researchers now report. The specialized eyes let larvae of the sunburst diving beetle (Thermonectus marmoratus) switch their vision from up-close to distant in ...

A diving beetle with highly complex eyes can grow its own bifocals at a surprisingly quick rate, scientists say. In a new study, the first to investigate how the beetles' unusual eyes develop, ...

Mammals generally have evolved the same basic, boring way for males to fertilize an egg: just send a bunch of tiny individual sperm into the female reproductive organs. But in insects like the diving ...

When ecologist Jose Valdez and his team released 10,000 tadpoles to populate a new conservation site in Newcastle, Australia, they surrounded the area with a mesh fence to keep out hungry snakes, ...

HAYS COUNTY, Texas — A beetle found in two Central Texas counties will not be considered a threatened and/or endangered species, as categorized by the Endangered Species Act. According to the U.S.