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Discover how scavengers prevent illnesses caused by microbes and other pathogens that inhabit the carcasses they consume
The strategies that scavengers, such as vultures, burying beetles, and spotted hyenas,...
Video: © MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Know how scientist by using synchrotron radiation, revealed the bombardier beetles defensive mechanism of spraying hot liquids in a series of pulses
By using synchrotron radiation X-ray imaging, scientists were able to reveal the...
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Find how the Canadian forests are infested and destroyed by the mountain pine beetles
Learn about the mountain pine beetle and its destruction of Canadian forests.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
See a colony of hornets battle with a stag beetle for access to tree sap
Several hornets battle a stag beetle for sap.
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African goliath beetle
African goliath beetle (Goliathus giganteus).
Appel Color Photography
boll weevil
Adult boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis).
Harry Rogers
Asparagus beetle
Asparagus beetle (Crioceris duodecimpunctata)
Grant Heilman/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Ladybug beetles
Seven-spotted ladybug beetles (Coccinella septempunctata).
Stephen Dalton—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Wood-boring beetle
Metallic wood-boring beetle (Agrilus).
William E. Ferguson
beetles
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Beetle larvae
Diversity of beetle larvae.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Ladybug larva
Larva of seven-spotted ladybug beetle (Coccinella septempunctata).
N.A. Callow—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
diving beetle
Diving beetles live in water, where they feed on small frogs and fish.
© Martin Pelanek/Shutterstock.com
Dung beetle
Earth-boring dung beetle (Geotrupes).
M.W.F. Tweedie—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Darkling beetle
Darkling beetle (family Tenebrionidae).
Erik Bjurstrom/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
coleopteran body plan
Coleopteran body plan. The wing veins shown (with their abbreviations in parentheses)...
From H. Weber, Grundriss der Insektenkunde, 4th ed. (1966); Gustav Fischer Verlag
bombardier beetle
Bombardier beetle (Brachinus).
© Stephen Dalton/Science Source
red milkweed beetle
Red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus).
AdstockRF
spider beetle
Spider beetle (suborder Polyphaga, order Coleoptera).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Bark beetle (Dendroctonus valens)
William E. Ferguson
Bess beetle (Popilius disjunctus)
Richard Parker
Billbug (Diaprepes)
Raymond A. Mendez—Animals Animals
Blister beetle (Lytta magister).
Photo Research International
Branch and twig borer
Branch and twig borer (Apathe)
E.S. Ross
Casebearing leaf beetle
An adult casebearing leaf beetle (Cryptocephalus sericeus) on a flower.
Archenzo
Colorado potato beetle
Adult Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).
Scott Bauer/U. S. Department of Agriculture (Image Number K4978-5)
Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium refuvillosum)
G.E. Hyde—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Click beetle
Eyed elator (Alaus oculatus) is a species of click beetle.
Margiocco/Popperfoto
golden ground beetle
Golden ground beetle (Carabus auratus) with prey.
Soebe
Tiger beetle
Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris).
© Henrik Larsson/Shutterstock.com
metallic wood-boring beetle
Metallic wood-boring beetle (Buprestis octoguttata).
© Henrik_L—iStock/Getty Images
North American firefly
North American firefly (Photinus).
© Brandon Alms/Shutterstock.com
Oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus)
S.C. Bisserot/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
Representative beetles.
From R.A. Pimentel, Invertebrate Identification Manual, © 1967 by Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
beetle allometry
Scaling differences in the antenna, the thorax, and the abdomen between deathwatch...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Arthropod diversity
Explore the major groups of athropods and the largest insect families with this interactive.
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