In nature, the beetles probably survive most attacks.
First, these beetles are nearly an inch long and packed with powerful muscles.
The odour, which is usually strongest at night, is meant to attract pollinators such as carrion beetles and flesh flies.
Carmine is made, literally, from ground-up cochineal insects, which is just a more harrowing way of saying mashed red beetles.
Or if you're a park ranger at Rocky Mountain park and the beetles are eating up your trees and have never been that far north in the history of America, you want him working on climate change.
Dung beetles have a keen sense of smell that allows them to hone in on their favorite food and use specialized mouth parts to draw out moisture and nutrients from the waste.
Rhino beetles are neither ferocious nor particularly dangerous.
Fireflies are winged beetles and give off a green luminous glow from chemicals in their lower abdomen at night.
The larva of various beetles of the genus Tenebrio that infest flour and other grain products and are often raised for bird feed.
And here’s something scary: The Berkeley scientists can now implant the MEMS equipment during the pupal stage so that the beetles emerge embedded with electrodes, ready to be wired up.
Even feces, dung beetles, or the falling leaves in autumn have their use too.
And, moreover, there are numerous less glamorous species, of beetles and birds, which might be saved with conservation cash expended on tigers.
This kind of beetles have hard shell.
The beetles are the first animals found to have a screw-and-nut mechanism in their bodies.
A huge rock beetles into the water.
Across the windows hung thin curtains of muslim embroidered with beetles' wings and with tiny seed-pearls, and as it passed by a pale-faced Circassian looked out and smiled at me.
These beetles subsist entirely on the undigested nutrients in the waste of herbivores like sheep, cattle, and elephants.
And while the beetles only attack mature trees, entomologist Jesse Logan argues that young trees can't do what the mature trees do.
