There are a number of species of beetle in the UK that will attack natural fibres such as wool, silk, fur, feathers and skins. It is the immature larvae forms that cause the damage, rather than the ...

One night a few years ago, he noticed a group of predaceous diving beetles (family: Dytiscidae) ripping into a tadpole. Both larval and adult diving beetles are known predators of tadpoles, but ...