Japanese beetles are an unwelcome sight, but many other garden beetles are good bugs worth welcoming to your yard.

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...