Male Hercules beetles reach up to 19 centimetres long, about the same length as a new pencil and nearly 20 times the size of the common seven-spot ladybird that is found in the UK. More than half of ...

The national science agency CSIRO has since confirmed it's an entirely new kind of longhorn beetle. When Mr Tweed first spotted a tiny white object on a leaf in the Gold Coast hinterland in ...

The images below come from Baskin's book, "Horned Beetles and Other Insects," which was published by the Gehenna Press in 1958. Only 30 copies of the book were printed on a variety of Japanese ...

Despite their ecological importance and phenomenal diversity, beetles are understudied. Scientists are constantly finding new species, such as the adorable fluffy longhorn beetle (Excastra ...

Coconut rhinoceros beetles can measure up to 2.5 inches in length and have a distinctive “horn.” With their horn, the beetles drill into the crowns of palm trees and feed on their sap ...

After a flower shop in Ecuador sent Inoue a shipment of baby’s breath and carnation stems, he fashioned them into a horn beetle. The goliath beetle, which can grow to a length of more than four ...

Into the earth it burrows, through the sky it pierces, this singular horn of the beetle bestows its kind the ability to thrive anywhere! This can be used in crafting weapons. Materials are items ...

Armin Moczek and Harald Parzer came to this conclusion after examining males from four geographically separated populations of the horned beetle species Onthophagus taurus. The researchers say ...