Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles (mouthparts). It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Everybody knows the Beatles, right? John, Paul, George and Ringo — the Fab Four — among some 300,000 species of these insects worldwide. Wait, that’s the BEETLES, the most common type of insect. About ...

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Prey size preference was determined for all major aquatic predators of tadpoles from semi-permanent pond communities in New York. All predators tested, except larvae of the predaceous diving beetle ...

Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles, or mouth parts. It had perished fairly high up, having ...