Silphidae is a family of beetles that are known commonly as large carrion beetles, carrion beetles or burying beetles.

Beetles and cockroaches.

Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dungs or feces.

With him, it's beetles.

Collecting beetles and cockroaches.

__NOTOC__Tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed.

The Lucanid Beetles of the World .

Within South Africa, we've got about 800 species of dung beetles, in Africa we've got 2,000 species of dung beetles, and in the world we have about 6,000 species of dung beetles.

Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.

So obviously beetles can see polarized light.

These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

We don't know yet what dung beetles use.

Well, did you know that beetles actually kiss?

The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae also known as long horned beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.

So, according to dung beetles, dung is pretty good.

And that's exactly what the beetles are doing here.

Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him.

Within the endopterygotes, the closest living relatives of Neuropterida are the beetles.

Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils,

Okay, so what we've got so far is, what are beetles doing?

Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom.

And most dung beetles actually wrap it into a package of some sort.

The group is also called fruit and flower chafers, flower beetles and flower scarabs.

If the wind blows them over, they're like beetles stuck there on the ground.

There are scavenger beetles that pick the skin and flesh off of bones in museums.

There are predator beetles, that attack other insects and still look pretty cute to us.

The combined light from these beetles these are actually tiny beetles is so bright that fishermen out at sea can use them as navigating beacons to find their way back to their home rivers. It's stunning.

Examples of this behavior may be found in the world of beetles, birds, mammals and more.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

When the bug was in the gut, he'd send back by return post some dung beetles.

The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera.

Now wouldn't you know it, there's some beetles that just love to make love at that temperature.

Something between 20 and 25 percent of all life forms on the planet, including plants, are beetles.

The dung beetles ate the camel dung, the flies died through lack of food, and trachoma dropped.

The important thing here is that this is not a one way trip, as in most dung beetles.

There are also a number of endemic insects adapted to these high altitudes especially flies, moths, beetles, and bees.

There are dung feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geotrupidae (the earth boring dung beetle ).

There are beetles that roll little balls of dung great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.

During the summer, adults eat large amounts of insects, including beetles and grasshoppers, and feed their young with larger prey items.

Colombia is the country with more endemic species of butterflies, number 1 in terms of orchid species and approximately 7,000 species of beetles.

It mentioned leopards and ring tailed coatis and poison dart frogs and boa constrictors and then coleoptera, which turn out to be beetles.

Image gallery References Further reading John M. Kingsolver, Dermestidae , in Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, American Beetles (CRC Press, 2002), vol.

And it seems appropriate to start at the end, because this is a waste product that comes out of other animals, but it still contains nutrients and there are sufficient nutrients in there for dung beetles basically to make a living, and so dung beetles eat dung, and their larvae are also dung feeders.

When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.

In some places, such as the Šumava National Park in the Czech Republic's Bohemian forest, problems with bark beetles have become a heated issue with an international political dimension.