HABITAT: This beetle inhabits areas that contain moist, barren salt flats; a natural water regime resulting in annual high flows in saline streams in the early spring and summer; and nonvegetated ...

Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species on Earth. For example, the beetle family Curculionidae – also known as weevils or snout beetles – is extremely diverse, with ...

DESCRIPTION: At about one to 1.5 inches in length, the American burying beetle is the largest species of its genus in North America. Its body is shiny black, with hardened protective wing covers ...