These beetles subsist entirely on the undigested nutrients in the waste of herbivores like sheep, cattle, and elephants.
And, moreover, there are numerous less glamorous species, of beetles and birds, which might be saved with conservation cash expended on tigers.
Or if you're a park ranger at Rocky Mountain park and the beetles are eating up your trees and have never been that far north in the history of America, you want him working on climate change.
This kind of beetles have hard shell.
Even feces, dung beetles, or the falling leaves in autumn have their use too.
The beetles are the first animals found to have a screw-and-nut mechanism in their bodies.
Across the windows hung thin curtains of muslim embroidered with beetles' wings and with tiny seed-pearls, and as it passed by a pale-faced Circassian looked out and smiled at me.
In nature, the beetles probably survive most attacks.
The odour, which is usually strongest at night, is meant to attract pollinators such as carrion beetles and flesh flies.
And here’s something scary: The Berkeley scientists can now implant the MEMS equipment during the pupal stage so that the beetles emerge embedded with electrodes, ready to be wired up.
First, these beetles are nearly an inch long and packed with powerful muscles.
And while the beetles only attack mature trees, entomologist Jesse Logan argues that young trees can't do what the mature trees do.
Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen at night.
A huge rock beetles into the water.
Dung beetles have a keen sense of smell that allows them to hone in on their favorite food and use specialized mouth parts to draw out moisture and nutrients from the waste.
Rhino beetles are neither ferocious nor particularly dangerous.
The larva of various beetles of the genus Tenebrio that infest flour and other grain products and are often raised for bird feed.
Carmine is made, literally, from ground-up cochineal insects, which is just a more harrowing way of saying mashed red beetles.
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