Posts Tagged: darkling beetles
'Beetle Mania' at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Jan. 22
There's "Beatlemania" and then there's "Beetle Mania." One involved the fanaticism directed at the...
The burying beetle is known for burying carcasses of small vertebrates, such as mice, squirrels and birds, and using them as a food source for its larvae. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A dung beetle with two balls of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Beetles! Bohart Museum Open House Set Sunday, Jan. 22
Beetles! And with an exclamation point! That's the theme of the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
This is a burying beetle, Nicrophorus germanicus. It buries the carcasses of small vertebrae and uses them as a food source for its larva. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
A multicolored Asian beetle and her eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A dung beetle with two ball of dung. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Why These Mealworms Don't Miss a Meal
Several years ago you probably read about the Stanford researchers who discovered that...
Close-up of a mealworm on Styrofoam. This image was taken with a Canon MPE-65 mm lens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Trevor Fowles, a second-year doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, with his mealworms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mealworms eating Styrofoam in the Christian Nansen lab at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis Graduate Student Scores EPA Grant Involving Mealworms and Styrofoam
Trevor Fowles' mealworms never miss a meal. Fowles, a second-year doctoral student in the UC Davis...
UC Davis doctoral student Trevor Fowles, shown here with his mealworms, won a $15,000 EPA grant for his project, "Beetle Larvae as Biodegraders of Styrofoam and Organic Waste." (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of mealworms eating Styrofoam.
In three weeks, the mealworms "ate three-fourths of a pound of Styrofoam (shown here), converting it into biodegradable waste," Trevor Fowles said.
Beetle Mania: Fran Keller's Photo Graces a Textbook Cover
UC Davis entomologist Fran Keller thinks everyone ought to appreciate beetles. Now, students who...
A photo of a darkling beetle, by Fran Keller, graces the cover of this textbook.