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Bark Beetles
Bark beetles often feed on dead or dying plant tissues, serving as primary decomposers. However, some bark beetle species kill healthy trees,...
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Ambrosia Beetles
The term “ambrosia beetles” refers to an ecological strategy shared by thousands of species of wood-boring weevils from multiple lineages, rather...
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Factors affecting catches of bark beetles and woodboring beetles in traps
The use of semiochemical-baited traps for detection, monitoring, and sampling bark beetles and woodboring beetles (BBWB) has rapidly increased since...
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Bark Beetles
Bark beetlesBark beetles are important components of the natural dynamicsDynamics of coniferous forestsConiferous forests. In Europe, the European...
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Scotocryptini beetles (Leiodidae) in nests of stingless bees
The nests of social insects have favorable characteristics for the maintenance of inquilines, including beetle species of various families. Although...
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Beetles: Coleoptera
Aquatic beetles belong to the suborders Adephaga and Polyphaga. The suborder Adephaga contains five families of water-related species. A...
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Expert System: Spiders and Carabid Beetles
The expert system considers spiders and ground beetles in the study region with a total of 35 spider species and 37 ground beetle species....
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One elephant may sustain 2 million dung beetles in East African savannas on any given day
In East African savannas, in the rainy season, an elephant dung bolus is usually transformed into a flat mat of dung residue within a few hours. We...
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Priority conservation areas for protected saproxylic beetles in Romania under current and future climate scenarios
Climate change threatens species and ecosystems globally, including forest ecosystems that support rich invertebrate diversity. Saproxylic beetles,...
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Responses of necrophilous beetles to animal mass mortality in the Australian Alps
A diversity of insects can be found at the remains of dead animals (carrion) and they play a vital role in its decomposition and recycling. An...
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New Records of Protected Beetles (Coleoptera) in Leningrad Province
AbstractTwo species of beetles, included in the Red Data Book of Leningrad Province, Platycerus caraboides (L.) (Lucanidae) and Peltis grossa (L.)...
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Assembly of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Inhabiting Cow Dung in the Northern Spurs of the Manchurian-Korean Mountains (Russian Far East)
AbstractIn the northern spurs of the Manchurian-Korean Mountains (Primorskii krai), an assembly of dung beetles inhabiting cow dung has been studied....
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Seasonal dominance of exotic ambrosia beetles compared to native species within deciduous and coniferous woodlots
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are among the most successful invaders of trees on a global scale. Exotic species can...
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Unpaved road verges are attractive habitats for dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in a plantation forestry-grassland mosaic
Roads have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity, although the impacts on insects are not yet fully understood. In a plantation...
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Eleven new records and a checklist of diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of Central Kerala, India
The present study recorded a total of 30 species of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) under 12 genera and 5 subfamilies from the central region of Kerala...
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The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)
Through historical coincidence, we had the opportunity to study the original sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles that were made...
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Seasonal dynamics of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in areas with anthropogenic disturbances: The case of Uzungwa scarp nature forest reserve, Tanzania
Anthropogenic disturbance causes habitat destruction and thereby presents a serious threat to many forest species. Seasonal variation in diversity...
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Carabid beetles in solar parks: assemblages under solar panels are severely impoverished compared to gaps between panel rows and edge areas
AbstractRenewable energies are a major tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Among renewables, solar parks are a key...
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Habitat loss reduces abundance and body size of forest-dwelling dung beetles in an Amazonian urban landscape
The loss of forest cover in urban landscapes alters the dynamics of spatial and food resources, challenging the maintenance of forest species, which...
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Field testing of a new-designed light trap for mass-trap** of May–June beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in horticultural areas
White grubs, the immature forms of the well-known May–June beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), are the most wide spread and destructive insect pests...
