LIFE CYCLE: American burying beetles live for about a year. FEEDING: Burying beetles eat carrion, as well as the larvae and eggs of flies. THREATS: This beetle is seriously threatened by habitat loss ...

With its shiny, black and fiery body and orange-tipped antennae, the American burying beetle is a vibrant beauty of the bug world. The insect's occupation, though, is a little less glamorous. After ...

In an unusually protracted oral argument, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...

Environmentalists say a Fish and Wildlife Service decision to downlist protections for the beetle ignores the ongoing threat ...