They’re not pretty. They live in death. And yet carrion beetles—those odd little insects that thrive on rotting meat—are becoming […] ...

A survey of the larvae of Japanese wasps revealed that not only is their diet more diverse than previously thought, it also showed that wild colonies prey on more species of vertebrates than had ...

Some witchetty grubs, for example, are the larvae of longicorn beetles which live inside mallee tree trunks. Beetles belong to the Class Insecta, and are the most abundant of all insects.

It’s the price the beetles pay so their larvae have the mouse to themselves. But if a beetle family is large, a carcass sometimes isn’t enough to feed all the hungry mouths.

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Goldfinch4ever / Getty Images As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay their eggs on the deceased animals so their larvae can eat the meat when developing.

Flesh-eating beetles were made famous in the movie The Mummy, where scarab beetles eat humans alive. Fortunately, the real flesh-eating beetles are known as dermestids only feast on dead people, and ...

Hercules beetles are a type of rhinoceros beetle and are just one of the many different types of beetles in the scarab family, with the scientific name Dynastes hercules. Identification of males comes ...

London's Natural History Museum has taken custody of 100 flesh-eating beetles which will be used to strip animal carcasses down to bare bones. Scientists come from around the world to study the museum ...

In Colombia, hungry beetle larvae combat trash buildup Larvae of the Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) can grow to nearly the length of a standard brick 11:22AM August 13, 2024 AFP ...

In that sense, beetles are a microcosm of the tree of life, McKenna says. Resilient as beetles are, however, we can’t take their survival for granted.

Another possible explanation for why beetles are so rich in species is that, in addition to being old, they have unusual staying power. “They have survived at least two mass extinctions,” says ...