Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of ...

During the summer, residents will start to see plenty of snakes, insects, and critters crawl outdoors or into homes to find shade, shelter, and food. That includes the large beetles known for their ...

Larvae of the European black oil beetle, which are orange, ride bees to their nests and then chow down on bee eggs. © Hjalte Kjærby via iNaturalist under CC BY-NC 4 ...

Like wily perfumers, a parasitic beetle’s larvae create floral aromas to lure in bees. Plants are known to cosplay as animals, but this rare discovery could be the first known example of an animal ...

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

Armando Falcon-Brindis was busy with work at the University of Idaho’s Parma Research and Extension Center last summer when a request came in from an Eagle homeowner to identify the dozens of larvae ...