In a notable advancement for entomology and conservation science, six previously unknown species of Sericinae scarab beetles ...

In a significant scientific advancement, Indian and German researchers have identified six new scarab beetle species from ...

Zoe is a failed witch and a hopeless romantic, Shishka is a shop owner with a mysterious past, and Eliza is… well, a scarab beetle. However, the three of them do share something important ...

April 7 (UPI) --A highly invasive wood-boring beetle was intercepted last month by U.S. border agents before it could destroy forests and ecosystems, Customs and Border Protection announced Monday.

Cape Town’s once-majestic urban forests are under attack from a tiny yet deadly invader – the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB). Barker explains that the threat lies in the fusarium fungus ...

She’s just three and a half years old, but Ziv Nitzan has a pretty impressive archaeological find to add to her résumé. Visiting the Tel Azekah site with her family from their home in the ...

Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military service in World War II, she spent her childhood scouring the dry fields for crickets, bamboo worms, and scarab beetles hiding in ...

The practice of using symbols of the revered beetles originated in Egypt ... “to be created”, as ancient Egyptians viewed the scarab as a symbol of the incarnation of god.

Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel.

We immediately reported this to the Israel Antiquities Authority.” The amulet Ziv found is shaped like a scarab or a beetle, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in the news release.

When I picture the beetle, I am picturing both a jewel-coloured scarab, and a hunched man with a bowler hat (the latter, likely, an amalgam of author Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa and the cartoon ...

Scientists have long been intrigued by strange metals—materials that don’t follow the usual rules of electricity and magnetism. Unlike familiar metals like copper or gold, which conduct ...