Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...

Beetle larvae, or grubs, are omnivorous and likely scavenge on meat as well as debris of plants. This means they have an important role in moving nutrients throughout the forest ecosystem to ...

Females release chemicals called aggregation pheromones — inviting other beetles to come to that tree — and then eat tunnels (galleries) into the inner bark to lay eggs. Newly hatched larvae eat ...