Everyone is familiar with the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Still, this pithy thought fails to tell the whole story. As is often the case, the going gets tough because even ...

Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles (mouthparts). It had perished fairly high up, having ...

KREM 2’s Tim Pham spotted this bug at his house, so he asked Meteorologist and Entomologist Michelle Boss to help ID it. Have ...

Another terrifying insect? A six-legged larvae that can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say. Called a “water tiger,” the predaceous diving ...

A New Species of Predaceous Diving Beetle, Heterosternuta phoebeae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas A New Species of Predaceous Diving Beetle, Heterosternuta phoebeae ...

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Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles, or mouth parts. It had perished fairly high up, having ...