“At first, I just assumed it must have been a bug that had fallen into the water and was swimming across the surface,” Gould told Science News. “But then realized the bug was upside-down and below the ...

Being quite small, insects can have a very different relationship with the water-air interface than larger animals do. Surface tension allows for insects like water striders to skate along the top of ...

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It isn’t a circus trick. An Australian beetle has been seen walking upside down in a pool of water, on the underside of the water’s surface. Researchers think it is a style of locomotion that has ...

A large swath of the central Oʻahu garden has been closed for many weeks due to a coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation. It is scheduled to reopen Thanksgiving weekend.