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 to ...

“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 can alter ...

Even for insects, wood is a tough food source as it contains hard substances such as cellulose. To help make wood more palatable, some wood-feeding insects are assisted by symbiotic microorganisms ...

Arlington, Va. — It has been more than four years since Mary Gallagher noticed the small piles of ‘‘sawdust'' beneath her imported, carved-wood elephant and watched, stunned, as tiny beetles scampered ...

Despite the buzz in recent years about other invasive insects that pose an even larger threat to agriculture and trees -- such as the spotted lanternfly, the stink bug and the emerald ash borer -- ...

Having hundreds of roundworms living inside your abdomen may seem like a bad thing. But for horned passalus beetles, hosting wriggly nematode larvae may benefit them and the eastern U.S. forests they ...

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 since ...

New research shows how an insect common to the Eastern U.S., the long-horned passalid beetle, has a hardy digestive tract with microbes to thank for turning its woody diet into energy, food for its ...

A possible (and less strange) answer might have been “absolutely nothing,” had it not been for a potential marketing ploy by a pest control consultant service at the University of California at Davis.

Despite the buzz in recent years about other invasive insects that pose an even larger threat to agriculture and trees -- such as the spotted lanternfly, the stink bug and the emerald ash borer -- ...