In Yuletides past, swarms of so-called Christmas beetles, a group that includes about 35 different species, would emerge around the holidays, which hit in the middle of Australia’s summer.

REMOTE-controlled cyborg beetles wearing microchip backpacks could be used to save lives in horror disasters. Two boffins at ...

“It [the beetle] could be used in search-and-rescue missions as it could go into small nooks and crevices in a collapsed ...

As Australian as kangaroos, the Christmas beetle holds a special place in hearts Down Under. But December sightings of these majestic creatures have become as rare as seeing Santa. Scientists are ...

The shot-hole borer, a highly invasive, introduced pest, is widely considered to be one of the most destructive bugs on earth ...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 1 (UPI) -- A plague of flying beetles in urban areas in Queensland, Australia, is likely the result of the state's extremely wet summer, entomologists say. Although the ...

One is Australia. Most of the native mammals there were forest and bush dwelling. That, not surprisingly, is exactly the habitat favored by the native dung beetles.

Beetles are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, accounting for nearly a quarter of all known animal species. Australia is thought to be home to a whooping 30,000 beetle species, and they ...

MORE THAN A billion animals have died in Australia’s catastrophic bushfires, and it will be months, probably years, before ecologists can quantify the damage to local ecosystems in the country’s south ...

Australia's tropical and sub-tropical cattle grazing areas are served by 7-13 species of dung burying beetles, but temperate pastures have fewer than four or five species. By burying dung deep below a ...

Australia has some of the world’s most beautiful and colourful stag beetles. ABOUT 1400 species of stag beetle (family Lucanidae) have so far been scientifically described and named worldwide. Of ...