Jewel beetles are striking insects, easily recognized by their vivid colors and metallic sheen. Possessing large, well-developed eyes, jewel beetles use vision and color for a range of different ...

Inspired by beetle cuticles, scientists have developed optical structures that can produce vibrant, iridescent and completely biodegradable colors using chitin—the world's second most abundant organic ...

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

Brightly-colored beetles or caterpillars feeding on a tropical plant may signal the presence of chemical compounds active against cancer and parasitic diseases, report researchers writing in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Colorful beetles that resemble ladybugs — dubbed Asian lady beetles — have appeared in large numbers in some eastern states, including New Jersey, due to warm fall weather, ...

We’ve already had cicadas, ticks, mosquitoes and spotted lanternflies bugging us this year. And now New Jerseyans could be bracing for another annoyance — swarms of multicolored Asian lady beetles.

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the "hell heron" and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

Shrimplike creatures, an extinct dinosaur called the “hell heron” and colorful beetles are among the 552 new species described this year by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

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