insects

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes gentle up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad vibrant colours: shiny blue, purple, orange, leaf inexperienced and clear flecked with gold. They’re members of a bunch of 40,000 species of leaf beetles, the Chrysomelidae, some of the species-rich branches of the huge beetle order, Coleoptera. “You … Read more