In a video taken by ecologist Shinji Sugiura, a tiny aquatic beetle known as Regimbartia attenuata pulls off a death-defying feat to rival Houdini. First, a frog snags the beetle and gulps it down ...

The nice thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food—just gulp, and down the hatch. The problematic thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food, which means ...

It’s a new kind of dung beetle. Beetles have an unorthodox way to escape frogs after getting eaten — by ducking out the back door, according to a Japanese study published in the journal Current ...

A synopsis of the carabid beetle tribe Lachnophorini reveals a remarkable 24 new species. This research is the beginning of series of steps towards the provision of taxonomic relationships of carabid ...

We investigated some of the causes of ground beetle decline using atlas data from Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands, countries in which natural environments have all but disappeared. We used ...

Annales Zoologici Fennici, Vol. 33, No. 1, Population biology and conservation of carabid beetles 3rd International Symposium of Carabidology, Kauniainen, Finland, 4—7 September 1995 (1996), pp.

A researcher fed beetles to frogs. The encounter did not end as expected. By Katherine J. Wu It’s a familiar story: Predator hunts prey. Predator catches prey. Predator gulps down prey. Usually, ...

Material that shields beetle from being burned by its own weapons, holds promise Date: February 25, 2019 Source: Penn State Summary: Carabid beetles produce caustic chemicals they spray to defend ...

The paper Y. Okuzaki, T. Sota, “How the length of genital parts affects copulation performance in a carabid beetle: Implications for correlated genital evolution between the sexes,” J Evol Biol, ...

An extensive study by Smithsonian scientists presents a synopsis of the carabid beetle tribe Lachnophorini. The research contains a new genus and the remarkable 24 new species added to the tribe. The ...