Placed over the heart in the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, archaeologists have often found carved amulets of scarab beetles, a species of dung beetle. The amulets, many with spells inscribed on ...

Throughout the ages, this exceptional bug has been carved ... for scarab beetles to devour flesh or move swiftly in herds as ...

European paper wasps, Polistes dominulus, climbed over the scarab beetles to drink from the fountains of sap. A pair of black and orange longhorned beetles, Tragidion coquus, clung to a scarab ...