When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its shell, eat the victim alive and then squat in its home for days. But the snail ...

Beetle Shell Inspires Brilliant White Paper Date: June 11, 2009 Source: University of Exeter Summary: An obscure species of beetle has shown how brilliant white paper could be produced in a ...

It's a beetle that can withstand bird pecks, animal stomps and even being rolled over by a Toyota Camry. Now scientists are studying what the bug’s crush-resistant shell could teach them about ...

color-shifting Sternocera aequisignata jewel beetle shells, along artificial glossy and matte green shells and a color-shifting shell with matte varnish. They baited the shells with mealworms ...

A team from Purdue University and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have deduced that when an extreme amount of pressure is put on the beetle, its "crush-resistant" shell adapts to the ...

Imagine standing in the middle of a vast desert, where the sun scorches the earth and water seems nothing more than a distant ...

A structure much like a liquid crystal allows the shell of a scarab beetle to circularly polarize light, scientists in the US have discovered. Mohan Srinivasarao of the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

It’s a beetle that can withstand bird pecks, animal stomps and even being rolled over by a Toyota Camry. Now scientists are studying what the bug’s crush-resistant shell could teach them about ...

Morphologically speaking, it’s the beetle’s elytra—the two hard shells that you see a ladybug open when it unfurls its wings and takes flight—that are acting as its shield. But the ...

CLCs are an example of how nature can be used in engineering. If you have ever noticed the iridescent wings of butterflies or the glossy coating on the exoskeletons of beetles, you have seen what CLCs ...