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 ...

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 ...

Larvae of the predaceous diving beetle Dytiscus verticalis acquired an avoidance of the unpalatable newt Notophthalmus viridescens. After aquiring an avoidance of sections of the tail from adult newts ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Heterosternuta phoebeae, new species, is described, illustrated, and discussed in the context of other members of the genus. The bizarre, ...

"A publication of the National Research Council of Canada Monograph Publishing Pr[o]gram". "NRC no. 43253"--T.p. verso. PREDACEOUS DIVING BEETLES COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE OF THE NEARCTIC REGION WITH ...

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Your next scuba diving buddy could be a water beetle. It turns out these little guys don't breathe under water with gills, but rather bring their oxygen supply with them, much like we humans do. And ...

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 ...

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 ...