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.

Your garden may look lush and peaceful, but it could be hiding a serious threat. Certain insects that live near your home’s ...

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

Novel Fungus Helps Beetles To Digest Hard Wood Date: August 19, 2008 Source: Penn State Summary: A little known fungus tucked away in the gut of Asian longhorned beetles helps the insect munch ...

Beetles that harbor Chondronema passali larvae eat more rotting wood than beetles without the larvae, researchers report May 1 in Biology Letters. That increased decomposition could speed the ...

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 ...

Beetles and their biodiversity in dead wood Date: May 9, 2023 ... At the top end of the food pyramid of deadwood beetles are species like the ant beetle, which eat other insects.

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese wood-eating beetle has invaded western Germany, wildlife experts said on Thursday. They fear the insect's ferocious appetite could force authorities to chop down 300 trees in the city of ...