The study revealed that beetles use elastic energy and flapping forces to passively deploy hindwings for flight and retract them using the elytra (modified, hardened forewing of beetles ...

The beetle, having lost the ability to fly away from danger, has evolved crush-resistant forewings (known as elytra), to survive being pecked to death by hungry birds. The researchers used ...

Beetles can be distinguished from other insects by their hard, shell-like wing covers called “elytra”. Unlike other insects, beetles hide their soft, thin wings beneath these protective covers ...

Among all flying insects, beetles demonstrate the most complex wing mechanisms, involving two sets of wings: a pair of hardened forewings called elytra and a set of delicate membranous hindwings.

DESCRIPTION: At about one to 1.5 inches in length, the American burying beetle is the largest species of its genus in North America. Its body is shiny black, with hardened protective wing covers ...

Despite their diversity, beetles share some general characteristics. One common characteristic is modification of the forewings into two leathery or hardened coverings called elytra that protect ...