With two gigantic pincers and the strength to lift epic loads, the Hercules beetle is one of the most fearsome insects on the planet. But new footage of the critter suggests it’s even more ...

Now, a team of researchers at MIT have captured on video the unique structural growth of butterfly wings—continuously, as a butterfly develops inside its chrysalis—for the very first time.

Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that ...

The Hercules beetle’s chrysalis looks like some sort of prop from an alien movie (Are you SURE you’re ready for this? We don’t need to do this. Really.

The chrysalis splits open down the center, and the butterfly escapes. Meanwhile, a reddish liquid spills out. That's all the waste the butterfly, née caterpillar, produced during its stay.

The chrysalis of a tiger clearwing butterfly hangs at the Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in New Orleans. ... “Most beetles do not make a pupal chamber or cocoon,” Jones says.

Inside a shiny butterfly chrysalis, which perhaps deceptively glints like water droplets, a young, ... All faux beetles at least avoided being hungrily speared once spotted.

"Out of Nowhere" by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Simon & Schuster, March 9), 4-8 years, 40 pages, $19.77 hardback STORY: A spiky gray beetle lives on the Big Rock — a bare ledge overlooking a vast ...

Readers can see a red chrysalis strung below the ledge, but Beetle couldn't. He was bereft. Looking everywhere for his friend, he spotted something red far away in the forest and decided it must ...