Flea beetle damage. It begins with a tiny “shothole,” a hole straight through a leaf as if the leaf was poked with a tiny ice pick. Damage begins with a few holes then faint lacy patternings appear ...

A shiny purple creature crawled around the inside of a tree near a palace in Bhutan. Perhaps the “stout” insect’s tree-dwelling lifestyle helped it go unnoticed. Or maybe the nearby palace simply ...

Scientists found a purple animal with a “remarkably big body” and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Punakha. Photo from Nihar Modi via Unsplash A shiny ...