Tiger beetles are, as the name implies, beetles, and beetles are insects, and like other members of this group, they have three body parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen.

Conservationists have celebrated breeding one of England's rarest insects in captivity for the first time. The Species ...

Adult tiger beetles have long sickle-shaped mandibles, large eyes, a head that is wider than its thorax and long running legs.

One of England’s rarest insects has been successfully bred in captivity. Two adult Heath Tiger Beetles have emerged at ...

The fastest tiger beetle, Cicindela hudsoni, can run at a speed of about 2.5 m/s (or about 125 body lengths per second in tiger beetle terms). Scaling that speed up for a 6-foot person, that’s ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing a Utah tiger beetle as threatened and delisting a recovering California longhorn beetle, according to new regulations. The ...

The researchers collected 19 tiger beetle species from southern Arizona and brought them into the lab. They tethered the insects to a metal rod and prompted them to fly.

HOUSTON — A research team at Rice University is buzzing with excitement over a bug. Evolutionary biologist Scott Egan and his team recently unearthed a new species of tiger beetle. They're ...

Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.

The critical habitat issue could decide the fate of the Salt Creek Tiger Beetle population north of Lincoln. Surveys show 263 Salt Creek tiger beetles existed in 2008, down from 777 in 2000.

The tiger beetles once lived on coastal beaches from Northern California to Washington but have been lost from most of those places. The most recent surveys found them at only 17 sites in Oregon; in ...

The tiger beetle is severely threatened by habitat loss, off-road vehicles (ORVs), climate change, coastal erosion, trampling by beach-goers, inbreeding and invasive species. Endangered Species Act ...