Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has ...

Our most familiar image of the dung beetle shows one of them rolling a finely shaped ball of dung to a hiding place where it ...

They live in many different ecosystems ... to extinction. The beetle order, Coleoptera, is the most diverse in the insect world, with more than 350,000 species.

DESCRIPTION: At about one to 1.5 inches in length, the American burying beetle is the largest species of its genus in North America ... HABITAT: The American burying beetle has been found in various ...

The American burying beetle began to bounce back from near-extinction after it was protected under the Endangered Species Act. It grew from just one known population at the time of its listing in 1989 ...

What is the Goliath beetle and why is it so important? The Goliath beetles (genus Goliathus) are among the world’s biggest insects. There are five different species. They grow up to 110mm long ...