After writing about the fig beetle – a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter – I received the following email from Elizabeth Russell, who gardens in ...

A structure much like a liquid crystal allows the shell of a scarab beetle to circularly polarize light, scientists in the US have discovered. Mohan Srinivasarao of the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Late in August, three species of insects converged to form a dense feeding assemblage on wilting hollyhocks. Scarab beetles cut the stems to feed on sap, and European paper wasps and longhorn beetles ...