While this might look like the pattern on a quilt, this is actually a magnified image of the pattern on the hardened forewings of a beetle. These wings are not used for flying but instead protect the ...

that protect the underlying flight wings, they have the elytra hitched on one pair of the jigsaw-shaped structures. Although the diabolical ironclad beetle can't fly, it closes its elytra while ...

The flour beetle is a small bug with a dark brown or black body. Adult specimens have a characteristic shiny shell and wings ...

DESCRIPTION: The Comal Springs riffle beetle is an aquatic, surface-dwelling species of about two millimeters in length, with females slightly larger than males. It is reddish brown in color and has ...

Some beetle exoskeletons, avian feathers, butterfly wings, and marine organisms ...

There are two primary ways you’ll hear sound coming from a Hercules beetle. The gigantic beetle depicted in the attached video is simply moving its wings, resulting in a loud and persistent humming ...