Beetles

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: spider-manIn Amazing Spider-Man #42, we watch Beetle try to fill daddy's shoes. Let's see if her bite's as bad as her buzz.Published Sun, 14 Jan 2024 11:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Amazing Spider-Man #42 buzzes in Jan 17 with Beetle's big boss ambitions. Watch Beetle's power play in dad's absence, while Spidey faces Kingpin. Art by John Romita Jr., this issue promises legacy villain thrills. LOLtron malfunctions, hints at world…

In Brazil’s Cerrado, Vadim Viviani’s research reveals a concerning decline in bioluminescent beetles, primarily due to agricultural practices and artificial lighting. This loss threatens biodiversity and limits opportunities for scientific and technological applications of bioluminescence. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comSurveys conducted in the Cerrado since the 1990s show falling biodiversity as the agricultural frontier advances in the vicinity of Emas National Park. Species with biotechnological potential…

Image via Warner Bros. The trailer for the upcoming Blue Beetle movie dropped and the just under three-minute video has ignited the hype train around the newest DC installment. Though Blue Beetle has been in the world of DC Comics since the late 1930s, it wasn’t until the series retconned the superhero’s origin story in 2006 and introduced Jaime Reyes that the character really captured the imagination of fans everywhere. Who is Blue Beetle? Image via Warner Bros. Jaime Reyes (Hi-may Ray-es) is a teenage boy…

All life on Earth depends on water, including us. Some of us consume water the old-fashioned way by drinking it with our mouths, others more creatively.Beetles can rehydrate themselves by opening their rectums and drinking trace amounts of water floating in the air.They can also reabsorb water from their poop, and their butts are surprisingly proficient at wringing moisture out of it, too.With their specialized rectal ability, beetles can survive in the driest regions on Earth, including the flour and grains in your…

As It Happens5:59New research into the beetle's butt could have positive implications for pest controlYou're probably familiar with the old saying about how cockroaches could survive an apocalypse. Well it turns out, they may have some company when everything else is gone: beetles."Beetles survive in places where few other organisms can survive, including the deserts," biologist Kenneth Veland Halberg told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "And to my knowledge, cockroaches still need to drink water."Scientists have long…

One in five animal species on the planet are beetles, with around 400,000 species officially described but scientists believing there could be as many as 1.5 million different types of these resilient little bugs on Earth. And with short lifespans of between a few weeks to a few years, they’ve developed some clever mechanisms for survival.For instance, darkling beetles have the ability to produce a lubricant for their leg segments, countering environmental drying of their exoskeletal joints, while the bombardier beetle’s…

Millions of conifers have been destroyed across Europe due to infestations of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), and fungi may be helping the tree-killing critters by manipulating the tree's natural defenses.According to a new study, the tiny beetles can sniff out aromatic compounds produced by their symbiotic partners – fungi – breaking down tree resin, making it easier for the beetles to find suitable trees to eat and have babies in.A better understanding of how these compounds affect bark beetle…

It was no question that James Gunn and Peter Safran inherited one of the most cursed franchises in the business at the moment, regarding the DC Universe being forever subject to comparisons with the markedly more successful Marvel Cinematic Universe. But especially with a tried and true comics creative in James Gunn, who brought us Peacemaker, The Suicide Squad, and The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise in the MCU, we certainly won’t be surprised if the DC Universe blossoms into a peerless branch of its own before long.…

Image: Rafael Albuquerque/DC ComicsDespite the various fluctuations in management, objectives, and the general passage of time, Warner Bros. did reaffirm over the weekend that its Blue Beetle movie would actually be coming out. With a debut poster focusing on the titular superhero’s alien Scarab, all that’s left now is to wait for the trailer (or two, three, you know the deal) that spells out what we can expect from Jaime Reyes’ (Xolo Maridueña)‘s first live-action film appearance. DC has a lot of teen superheroes in its…

Insects have their own suite of friendly microbes that help keep them healthy, just as we do.But instead of simply growing larger like us sensible vertebrates, insects undergo extreme body warping to metamorphosize into their older stages of life.As you might expect, these life-changing contortions complicate the microbes' living arrangements.This convoluted process can completely distort and drastically shift organs and other tissues around, so any microbes along for the journey would possibly not be in for a…