According to folklore, the woolly worm is believed to have the ability to forecast the weather for the coming winter season.

This act of 'hygienic cannibalism' stops other larvae and the queen herself from falling ill while ... have found that worker ants in established colonies do not show the same cannibalistic tendencies ...

Rose slugworms are the larvae of a sawfly. Sawflies are a group of insects in the suborder (Symphyta) of the Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps). There are about 500 species of Sawfly are small winged ...

The NSF awarded the Mathew lab $750,000 to study how hunger shapes smell-related decision-making in insects. Mathew and his lab study the larvae of Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit ...

In the process, they pollinate the crops, which can boost yield. But the insects also provide a double benefit—their larvae often feed on soft-bodied crop pests like aphids and thrips.

However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1. By doing so, the queens ...

The rest of the exposure conditions were identical to the non-transgenic embryo treatment. At 96 hpf, transgenic zebrafish larvae were photographed by a fluorescence microscope (Nikon, DS-Qi2, Japan) ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described. An ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described.