“The beetles do make a difference,” says Hans Cornelissen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Researchers already knew that, by killing trees, insect infestations in forests ...

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six zipped her jacket and ambled into the woods with an ax. She stopped at a mixed stand of emerald and burnt-orange ...

Flying haphazardly through the air on a balmy summer day, the male stag beetle is in a hurry to find a mate. Find out how he puts his spectacular antler-like jaws to use, why this species needs ...

A beetle the size of a sesame seed, responsible for killing thousands of trees in Southern California, has been confirmed for the first time in San Mateo County. Invasive shothole borers, which attack ...