Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary tale of one of Earth's ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack. Researchers have made major strides in ...

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of Idaho entomologist Armando Falcon-Brindis. Opatroides punctulatus ...

A new study from Australia shows that larvae of the darkling beetle can eat polystyrene — the material behind plastic foam. How 'superworms' could help solve the trash crisis A bunch of small but ...

Imagine if Tony Stark went bug-watching instead of inventing in the lab. While we’re working on complex machines, beetles have been solving survival challenges for millions of years. The darkling ...

Darkling beetles are back, marching north across Tri-Cities sidewalks and roadways, particularly in places where residential neighborhoods meet undeveloped land in south Kennewick and Richland. Each ...