With the arrival of warm weather comes the arrival of summer’s threats: insects. While some people may detest insects because they are so buggy, for gardeners every year it can feel like a new battle against the bugs as they determine which pest is ruining their plants and how to protect their crops from complete … Read more
As organisms on planet Earth diversified, some branches of the tree of life became exceptionally diverse, others much less so. Still others became extinct. Why evolution favored certain groups over others is a long-standing question in evolutionary science. Beetles are the poster child for evolutionary success: around 400,000 known species – about a quarter of … Read more
Harlan Gough holds a recently collected tiger beetle on a chain. Laurens Reeves hide caption change caption Laurens Reeves Harlan Gough holds a recently collected tiger beetle on a chain. Laurens Reeves “A lot of things fly at night,” says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set … Read more