BIOENGINEER

Bamboo Borer Beetles Keep a Strict Afternoon Schedule for Emergence and Flight

New field and laboratory research shows that the bamboo borer Dinoderus minutus emerges around 14:00 and takes flight around ...
Jezebel

Forget drones. Here's a beetle whose flight you can remote-control

The world is fast becoming a zoo of mechanical creatures. Roboworms, spiders, BigDogs, even penguins are walking (or crawling) the earth around us. But these are not real cyborg animals. What if you ...
Guinness World Records

First untethered controlled flight by a cyborg beetle

Cyborg beetles are insect-robot hybrids created by implanting electrical probes in the muscles of living bugs. These probes are attached to a small microcontroller, mounted on the insect's back, which ...
BIOENGINEER

Stag Beetle Honey Trap Offers New Window on Forest Health

Kyoto University researchers used a female-attracted flight interception trap to turn Platycerus stag beetle captures into the first spatially explicit habitat assessment for operational broadleaf ...

Hawaii introduced predatory beetles 13 times to control crop pests; the only species that established was one scientists never meant to introduce

Taxonomic ignorance and confusion lead to an unexpected result documents 13 introductions of beetles from the genus Calosoma ...