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Discover how scavengers prevent illnesses caused by microbes and other pathogens that inhabit the carcasses they consume
The strategies that scavengers, such as vultures, burying beetles, and spotted hyenas,...
Know how scientist by using synchrotron radiation, revealed the bombardier beetles defensive mechanism of spraying hot liquids in a series of pulses
By using synchrotron radiation X-ray imaging, scientists were able to reveal the...
Find how the Canadian forests are infested and destroyed by the mountain pine beetles
Learn about the mountain pine beetle and its destruction of Canadian forests.
See a colony of hornets battle with a stag beetle for access to tree sap
Several hornets battle a stag beetle for sap.
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asparagus beetle
Asparagus beetle (Crioceris duodecimpunctata)
Grant Heilman/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
seven-spotted ladybird beetles
Seven-spotted ladybird beetles (Coccinella septempunctata).
Stephen Dalton—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
larva of the seven-spotted ladybird beetle
Larva of seven-spotted ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata).
N.A. Callow—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
diving beetle
Diving beetles live in water, where they feed on small frogs and fish.
Geoff Dore/Nature Picture Library
earth-boring dung beetle
Earth-boring dung beetle (Geotrupes).
M.W.F. Tweedie—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
coleopteran body plan
Coleopteran body plan. The wing veins shown (with their abbreviations in parentheses)...
From H. Weber, Grundriss der Insektenkunde, 4th ed. (1966); Gustav Fischer Verlag
Colorado potato beetle
Adult Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).
Scott Bauer/U. S. Department of Agriculture (Image Number K4978-5)
metallic wood-boring beetle
Metallic wood-boring beetle (Buprestis octoguttata).
© Henrik_L—iStock/Getty Images
Representative beetles.
From R.A. Pimentel, Invertebrate Identification Manual, © 1967 by Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
beetle allometry
Scaling differences in the antenna, the thorax, and the abdomen between deathwatch...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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