Beetles display a wide range of colors, from deep muted tones to those that shift from green to purple or yellow as they ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

CANFIELD – Sweet potato vine has been a popular container “spiller” for many years, and I have used it often. However, several years ago I discovered a variety called “Solar Tower” that climbs rather ...

A meadow on Flagstaff Mountain is home to two species of tortoise or shield beetles. The names for this group of beetles come from their covering, which extends beyond the margins of the body to cover ...

Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols. When you purchase through links on our ...

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they ...

Q: These bugs are eating my morning-glory plant. Can you please tell me what they are and how I can get rid of them? A: Those are tortoise beetle larvae. I mentioned the adults in a July column. This ...

SMALL PRINT:It has been a busy few days in science-land, with Nobel Prize announcements honouring discoveries about our immune system, our expanding universe and atomic mosaics called quasicrystals.

„The bedrock of our study were the histological descriptions and drawings of the beetle’s symbiotic organs that were first published by the German zoologist Hans-Jürgen Stammer more than 80 years ago.

A meadow on Flagstaff Mountain is home to two species of tortoise or shield beetles. The names for this group of beetles come from their covering, which extends beyond the margins of the body to cover ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange ...