Nov. 4 (UPI) --Inside ambrosia beetle colonies, mothers and daughters work and reproduce alongside one another, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

A remarkably high diversity of the wingless long-horned beetles in the mountains of northern Borneo is reported by three Czech researchers from the Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apart ...

The number of insects in Germany is declining rapidly - in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, it has dropped by three-quarters within only 25 years. In a new study, biologists at Bielefeld ...

An azuki bean beetle on an azuki bean. The white spots on either side of the bean are beetle eggs. Fukuoka, Japan—Researchers at Kyushu University have found that when azuki bean beetles infected with ...

Fungus farming is a fascinating symbiosis that has evolved multiple times in social insects: once in ants, once in termites, and several times in weevils (beetles) from the subfamilies Scolytinae and ...

This camera trap recorded two stag beetles moving across a moss-covered tree trunk in a forest environment. One individual ...

Strategies in sexual reproduction in beetles (Coleoptera) are various. Most species reproduce sexually and for some species asexual reproduction takes precedence 1. The sexual reproduction in ...

A remarkably high diversity of the wingless long-horned beetles in the mountains of northern Borneo is reported by three Czech researchers. Apart from the three genera new to science and the four new ...