At a glance, the Japanese water scavenger beetle Regimbartia attenuata looks like any other beetle. It is small, black, and pleasantly round. It has your standard set of beetle legs (six) and is ...

Because of their small size, water beetles might have been kicked around since they were born — but thanks to abnormal survival strategies, they're "stayin' alive" after predators eat them. Meet the ...

For the first time, a prey insect — in this case, a water beetle — was observed to successfully escape the wrath of its predator after being eaten alive, using its tiny legs to crawl through its ...

Frogs that had not encountered the bombardier beetle or assassin bug were used in this study. Ignore: frogs did not attack beetles (or bugs). Stop attack: frogs stopped their attacks immediately after ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the frog-legged leaf beetle (Sagra ...