As I walked past a small, damaged cottonwood tree, I noticed an iridescent movement. It was a black beetle with numerous glimmering dots, even on its large eyes. It had an oval body, a blunt head and ...

Brilliant gold- (and silver-colored beetles have given optics researchers new insights into the way biology can recreate the appearance of some of nature's most precious metals, which in turn may ...

Question: We have a Black Mission fig tree and a large green bug is eating the figs. At first I thought it was birds so I covered the tree with netting. When I checked the tree today I saw 4 or 5 ...

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It sounds like a bad B-movie script: Japanese beetles could be massing for a treetop-to-root assault on Denver-area vegetation. The emerald-green, metallic beetles with coppery wing covers are eating ...

Idaho is gradually winning its multiyear campaign against Japanese beetles in Boise. After the number of the metallic green beetles caught in traps in the city exploded from 61 in 2012 to 3,038 in ...

Researchers discovered a new species of blister beetle in Morocco, according to a recent study. Mario Garcia-Paris via European Journal of Taxonomy While trekking through an open grassland atop a ...

Researchers rediscovered a species of weevil thought extinct and found a new species of weevil in the Philippines, according to the University of Alberta. Shirley Bangoy University of Alberta Tom ...

Stegosauria are some of the most widely recognized dinosaurs in history. And the Volkswagen beetle is one of the most iconic vehicles ever made. Combine the two, throw in some extra scrap metal, and ...

(Nanowerk News) Costa Rica was once regarded as the poorest of all the colonies of the Spanish Empire, sadly deficient in the silver and gold so coveted by conquistadors. As it turns out, all of the ...

Article published in new Optical Materials Express journal unveils secrets of how biology recreates look and luster of gold and silver WASHINGTON, April 25—Costa Rica was once regarded as the poorest ...