#The beetle scientist on a mission to name the world’s most beguiling bugs

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“#The beetle scientist on a mission to name the world’s most beguiling bugs” (Courtesy of Anthony Davies/Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food/Government of Canada) Spending a few years rooting through rotted logs in snake-infested tropical forests on remote Australian mountaintops at night in a quest for beetles would be enough to put some people off the…

#Beetles, eaten by frogs, can run right out of their butts: study

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“#Beetles, eaten by frogs, can run right out of their butts: study” August 4, 2020 | 2:42pm Enlarge Image It’s the first study to document a prey escaping through the butt of its captor. It’s a new kind of dung beetle. Beetles have an unorthodox way to escape frogs after getting eaten — by ducking…

#Smaller farm fields can reduce biodiversity loss and increase wild plants, birds, beetles, and bats

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“#Smaller farm fields can reduce biodiversity loss and increase wild plants, birds, beetles, and bats” Smaller farmers fields can be beneficial to wild species. Credit: Shutterstock Around the world, biodiversity is dropping precipitously. In North America, about three billion birds have been lost over recent decades and amphibian populations are declining at a rate of…