The beetles can pick clean a small bird within a couple of days, but may need two weeks for larger skeletons like the gannet. March 26: A northern gannet. April 2: The northern gannet after 1 week ...

As cold weather approaches, the Asian beetles, an invasive species often confused for the native ladybugs, seek out places to ...

More: Ladybug or Asian lady beetle? What to know and how to get rid of these insects. Both ladybugs and Asian beetles hibernate during winter and reappear in the spring, making fall a common time ...

The beetles, they suggest, do it to trick their predators into thinking they're toxic, allowing them to fly away, unharmed. How moths use ultrasound against the bats.

As for the second part of its name, the lady beetles are actually native to East Asia, not Wisconsin or the U.S., Liesch said. For about a century, the U.S. attempted to deliberately introduce the ...