18-09-14 Volkswagen has decided to squash its iconic Beetle. 大众决定砍掉标志性的甲壳虫。 The companys American unit announced Thursday that it would end global production of the third-generation bulbous bug in July of next year after offering two special ed...
16-06-21 A species of wasp that is a natural enemy of a wood-boring beetle that kills black locust trees has been rediscovered, more than 100 years after the last wasp of this species was found. The discovery is significant because the wood-boring beetle, kn...
16-04-27 Chewbacca, the fictional Star Wars character, has given his name to a new species of flightless beetle, discovered in New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Although Trigonopterus chewbacca was only one of the four black new weevil beetles found during the...
14-11-10 President Jose Mujica says he has received a million-dollar offer to buy his blue 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, which has become a symbol of the Uruguayan leader's austere lifestyle. 乌拉圭总统穆吉卡日前称,已有人出一百万美元的高价购买其破旧的座驾。这辆19...
14-11-10 Speed is an asset for a predator. Except when that predator runs so fast that it essentially blinds itself. The tiger beetle, relative to its size, is the fastest creature on Earth. Some of these half-inch-long beetles cover about 120 body lengths p...
13-10-11 A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates drought high in the northern Colorado mountains is the primary trigger of a massive spruce beetle outbreak that is tied to long-term changes in sea-surface temperatures from the Northern Atlantic...
13-06-25 Scientists discovered a new species of burying beetle, Nicrophorus efferens. Burying beetles are well known to most naturalists because of their large size, striking black and red colors, and interesting reproductive behaviors -- they bury small ver...
13-03-28 The genome of the mountain pine beetle -- the insect that has devastated B.C.'s lodgepole pine(美国黑松) forests -- has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. This is a...
10-03-27 The world's strongest insect is a type of male dung beetle which needs its power to be able to mate with females in animal faeces, British and Australian scientists said Wednesday. 英国和澳大利亚科学家本周三称,全世界力量最大的昆虫是一种雄性屎壳郎,...
09-07-25 The stunning metallic green sheen of the jewelled beetle is produced by microscopic cells in its exoskeleton. 宝石甲虫发出漂亮金属绿光是因为它外骨骼的微观细胞。 Under left circularly polarised light, the same beetle looks super-green Researchers rep...