ALERT: There’s a top secret crew cleaning up the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Meet nature’s tiniest janitors - dermestid beetles! These incredible insects have the grossest (but ...

Nov. 24—WASILLA — Before he had millions of flesh-eating beetles, Ron Sheldon's taste in insects was more conventional. "I've always been a bee person. I grew up with bees," said Sheldon, a native of ...

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NH copy 39088020168936 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. "Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently ...

DEER LODGE — Trina Kent caught a big whiff of the meat-eating beetles’ distinctive aroma and set a boundary or two.

DEER LODGE — Celeste Davis won’t let her husband Todd Davis in the house without stripping down after spending time at his favorite hobby. Then again, she’s justified. That’s because Todd Davis is in ...

New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit, according to an article ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's ...

BEND, Ore. — Mark Thill's flesh-eating beetles are hungry. As the retired fisherman-turned-taxidermist prepared to open the shed where he keeps his beetle colony, he said he had not given the insects ...

Battered feathers and prehistoric beetle larvae encased in amber have revealed a relationship between dinosaurs and insects that stretches back more than 105 million years – the oldest example of ...

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New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit. New fossils in amber have ...