If you consider body length alone, however, the titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) is the longer species. These giant insects may look a bit like a cockroach, but they are a species of longhorn beetle - ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold.

“She was often portrayed as a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns,” Deschodt explains ... He believes this particular species of dung beetle may live in ant nests, and may be providing ...