Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

A team of ecologists and entomologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with a colleague from Mexico, ...

Giraffe weevils are the only weevil in the world to ... male makes the most of the distracted fighting males and mates. Larvae can live up to two years, feeding on fungi inside the larval tunnels.

The knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe weevils, a species of beetle with a snout like a lance. The biggest males snout-wallop each other until the other either retreats or is knocked ...

Smaller male New Zealand giraffe weevils use their diminutiveness to their advantage to mate with females under the noses of their larger peers. Males of many different species fight to win or ...