TUNJA, Colombia (AP) — Three yellow-and-black beetles clung to the shirt of Germán Viasus Tibamoso, a Colombian environmental engineer who uses beetle larvae to transform food waste into fertilizers.

It's easy to imagine an adult bird standing over youngsters with mouths open wide for a pre-mashed meal. It's more difficult to picture a beetle doing this, but the burying beetle Nicrophorus ...

Cucumber beetles are one of the most destructive pests in the vegetable garden, and if you’re searching for how ...

Like their reptile namesakes, tortoise beetle larvae lug protective coverings around with them. But rather than residing beneath domes of bone and keratin, their shields are made of humbler materials: ...

Have you ever been in the garden and found a large, white, C-shaped grub with a distinctive brown head and six legs clustered near the head? If so, you've had an encounter with the larva of a scarab ...

A research team confirms biodegradation of polystyrene using darkling beetle larvae found in Korea. There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of ...

Oilseed rape growers are being encouraged to carry out simple on-farm stem sampling to monitor cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) larvae and better understand pest pressure in their own crops. Last year, ...