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 ...

The gigantic beetle depicted in the attached video is simply moving its wings, resulting in a loud and persistent humming and clicking noise. This is down to the sheer size of the insect ...

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 one defining feature that unites together most beetles is the front pair of wings enclosed in a hard case. This wing case is called the elytron. When it wants to fly, the beetle opens up the ...

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 ...