Everyone is familiar with the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Still, this pithy thought fails to tell the whole story. As is often the case, the going gets tough because even ...

Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles (mouthparts). It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Another terrifying insect? A six-legged larvae that can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say. Called a “water tiger,” the predaceous diving ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Heterosternuta phoebeae, new species, is described, illustrated, and discussed in the context of other members of the genus. The bizarre, ...

"A publication of the National Research Council of Canada Monograph Publishing Pr[o]gram". "NRC no. 43253"--T.p. verso. PREDACEOUS DIVING BEETLES COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE OF THE NEARCTIC REGION WITH ...

The Coleopterists Bulletin publishes research on the systematics and biology of beetles of the world. The Coleopterists Bulletin is a fully refereed journal published quarterly beginning in March by ...

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Last year a friend brought me a gigantic dead beetle they had found behind some floodlights in the school gym. It had large, powerful mandibles, or mouth parts. It had perished fairly high up, having ...

Another terrifying insect? A six-legged larvae that can slurp up fish and fully grown bullfrogs was found at a Montana national park, officials say. Called a “water tiger,” the predaceous diving ...