beetle
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Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
The beetle, Sceptobius lativentris, even smaller than the ant, turns off its own pheromones to go stealth.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Then the beetle seeks out an ant — climbing on top of it, clasping its antennae in its jaws and scooping up its pheromones with brush-like legs.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
A tiny beetle responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of oak trees in Southern California has reached Ventura County, marking a troubling expansion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
This blue girl had Sarai’s face, and she wasn’t wearing some gown of beetle wings and daggers, but the same lace-edged white slip Sarai had worn the first night.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
