Dead wood-eating beetles, such as termites, can cause damage to residential properties. But they repay humans by performing a priceless service: helping us recycle decomposing dead trees.

The insects digest more decaying wood when hosting nematodes, potentially benefiting the whole ecosystem. By JoAnna Klein Leishmaniasis parasites eat human flesh. Cordyceps fungi lead ants to ...

Female beetles bore into the wood and make tunnels to lay their eggs.

Wood-eating beetles may make wildfires emit even more carbon. When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the risk of ...

I can draw a clear line from my phobia of flesh-eating beetles to The Mummy (1999), in which a CGI scarab beetle burrows into a man’s hand and crawls up his arm. Real scarab beetles, I have ...

WORCESTER, Mass. -- A wood-devouring beetle has gained a foothold in New England, and authorities plan to cut down large numbers of infested trees and grind them up to stop the pest from spreading ...

Since wood is largely composed of tough components, such as cellulose, some wood-feeding insects are aided by symbiotic microorganisms that allow them to consume it. A group from Nagoya University ...

An infestation of rapacious wood-eating beetles has dined on the first-floor rafters of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow theater putting it in danger of collapsing on the creeps, freaks and sword ...

Dead wood-eating beetles can cause damage to residential properties, just like termites may do. But they repay humans by performing a priceless service: helping us recycle decomposing dead trees.

Since wood is largely composed of tough components, such as cellulose, some wood-feeding insects are aided by symbiotic microorganisms that allow them to consume it. A group from Nagoya University ...