Who is the beetle that can fold its delicate wings into an origami shape, keeping them safely tucked away as it scampers through dirt and debris? Scientists have long been fascinated by the intricate ...

Beetle wings are often hidden. Nestled behind armored shields on the beetle’s back, they unfurl in whirring sheets, whisking their clumsy owners from danger. Beetles don’t have more than two sets of ...

On July 17, 2025, in Shandong, China, the video captured a hidden‑winged beetle (Staphylinidae) expertly folding its wings in layers as if packing them into a bag. The footage showed the insect ...

For this study, Tomoyasu and his colleagues edited the genes of the Tribolium beetle so that it would partially grow a wing on its abdomen — a place beetles don’t usually have wings. As a result, they ...

I took this photo of an invasive ladybug Sunday, Feb 22. I have often wondered just how it is that beetle bugs fly. Birds have wings that are easily seen. Butterfly wings are always right out in the ...

Insects dominate this world. More than 70 percent of the described species on Earth are insects. What made them so successful? Their wing, says Yoshi Tomoyasu, associate professor of biology at Miami ...

A teeny robot designed to replicate the wing dynamics of rhinoceros beetles could be well-suited for search-and-rescue missions, as well as spying on real insects, according to researchers at ...

Featherwing beetles are some of the world’s smallest flying insects. Yet they can rocket along with the speed and agility of much larger insects. Now, scientists have figured out how the beetles do it ...

Beetles don’t have more than two sets of wings — unless they’re in Yoshinori Tomoyasu’s lab. In research recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tomoyasu and his ...