Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary tale of one of Earth's ...

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of Idaho entomologist Armando Falcon-Brindis. Opatroides punctulatus ...

Darkling beetles are back, marching north across Tri-Cities sidewalks and roadways, particularly in places where residential neighborhoods meet undeveloped land in south Kennewick and Richland. Each ...

A new study from Australia shows that larvae of the darkling beetle can eat polystyrene — the material behind plastic foam. How 'superworms' could help solve the trash crisis A bunch of small but ...

Imagine if Tony Stark went bug-watching instead of inventing in the lab. While we’re working on complex machines, beetles have been solving survival challenges for millions of years. The darkling ...

In research published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, University of Delaware graduate student Ben Sammarco, UD faculty member Michael Crossley and the University of Georgia’s Nancy ...