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 ...

Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vt., tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that ...

Builders are rather uncommon among adult leaf beetles though young ones of certain species use own feces to construct a defensive shield. Two closely related, hitherto unknown species of tiny southern ...

American elms, Ulmus americana, are native to North America from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia and from Texas to Florida. They grow 60 to 80 feet tall, with a thick trunk, the shape of a vase and a ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of leaf beetles in southern India that display a novel way of using leaf holes and their fecal pellets to build shelters – a nesting behavior previously not ...

A beetle more usually at home on the warm Mediterranean coast has been found for the first time living in the UK. Known as the rockrose prickly leaf beetle, the insect is reliant on a handful of plant ...

Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

A research team led by Yang Xingke from Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, discovered a new species of the leaf-beetle genus Sphenoraia Clark, 1836 at Haizhu Wetland and named it as ...

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 ...