The beetle’s official name is the Polybothris sumptuosa and it’s a species in the pretty Buprestidae family. Also known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles, insects in the family ...

The rose chafer beetle flies noisily from flower to flower on warm summer days. Its larvae live on decaying plant material like compost and rotting wood. This jewel-like beetle is found from the ...

For many creatures, the modern landscape is a minefield rife with hazards that natural selection never saw coming.

There are roughly 400,000 species of beetle known to science, from miniscule insects less than half a millimetre long to giants longer than a chihuahua. Beetles - a group of insects also known as ...

This sets the scene for rich and vibrant hues to take center stage, namely jewel tones. While jewel tones have remained popular in fashion for years, we’re seeing many homeowners take a bright ...

This is of course bad for pretty much everyone. Except for Melanophila beetles. These insects, which are roughly the size of pumpkin seeds, are pyrophilous — meaning, they love fire. They ...

Darkling beetles are back, marching north across Tri-Cities sidewalks and roadways, particularly in places where residential neighborhoods meet undeveloped land in south Kennewick and Richland.

Gnarly and wizened, she can’t compete with Crater Lake’s impossibly blue beauty. Nor does she try as she stubbornly clings to ...

SOCORRO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Residents in Socorro continue to complain of Red Beetles infesting their homes, a situation that many said is not improving. I just want to know how long this is ...