Tag: Beetles
Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by...
Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee
If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it...
Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The big idea
Biologists have long known that rainforest treetops...
Bitter battles between stinkbugs and carnivorous mice could hold clues for...
Lauren Koenig, Michigan State University
It’s hard to appreciate the value of pain when we feel it, but most living things would not survive without...
How fireflies glow – and what signals they’re sending
Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University
You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up....
How the Volkswagen Beetle sparked America’s art car movement
John A. Heitmann, University of Dayton
With a mariachi band playing along, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line of a Mexican factory...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
