There isn’t much data available to the wider public on the Calathus lundbladi ground beetle. This elusiveness is in no small part due to the little bug’s position on the International Union for ...

The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...

Ground beetles have a simple social life, which makes them easier to study than ants or bees. As a bonus, they don t sting. At night you can catch large numbers of ground beetles in pitfall traps. In ...

While exploring the forest floor, I noticed something unusual—a ground beetle right in the middle of a hunt. It had already caught a slug and was totally focused on its prey. Moments like this show ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 5, 2025) A study conducted in Pennsylvania and published in Environmental Entomology highlights threats to nontarget organisms from neonicotinoid insecticide exposure. Using ...

Ground beetles (Carabidae) possess an impressive array of defensive strategies, most notably the production of chemical secretions from specialised pygidial glands. These secretions, with complex ...

At N.C. State Extension we teach and encourage the practice of Integrated Pest Management in horticulture. As the name suggests, Integrated Pest Management is a pest control practice that integrates ...