Watch These Beetles Tear the Feathers off a Parrot

Sometimes you just want a skeleton. Especially if you’re a museum. So how do you get the meat off the bones of an animal? Well, if you’re the Natural History Museum in London, beetles, apparently. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.

Video: Natural History Museum

Ed note: There was a time when beetles ate dinosaurs.

Beetles Invasion: One Artist’s Take on the Insect

Perched on a stool in her studio in northwest Washington, D.C., artist Joan Danziger pages through the book Living Jewels. “This one influenced me,” she says, pointing to Phaedimus jagori, a green-and-gold beetle from the Philippines. The book contains flattering portraits of beetles taken by photographer Poul Beckmann. “See this one?” Danziger asks, showing me a yellow-and-black striped beetle from Mexico called Gymnetis stellata. “It became the ‘Tiger Beetle’ up there.” - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.

Photos by: Joan Danziger

Ed note: Here are the country’s most dangerous beetles.