The Beetle Team Tribolium Data Archive is a collection of 10 data sets created and/or analyzed over a 20-year period by a multidisciplinary group of collaborators, the “Beetle Team” (Jim Cushing, R. F. Costantino, Brian Dennis, Robert A. Desharnais, Shandelle M. Henson, Aaron A. King, and Jeffrey Edmunds). The data are from population laboratory experiments using the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Their research program was focused on providing biological evidence of complex nonlinear population dynamics.

The data are from biweekly censuses of laboratory cultures of the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. The data are organized into three life stages: (1) the “L-stage” which are feeding larvae, (2) the “P-stage” which consists of immobile pre-pupae, pupae, and callow adults, and (3) the “A-stage” which are mature adults. Each population census forms an LPA triplet.

The data archive is contained in a single Excel workbook, with a separate worksheet for each data set.