Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have developed a patented breakthrough system that marks a major step forward in ...
No legs? Not a problem. Some pudgy insect larvae can still jump up to 36 times their body length. Now high-speed video reveals how. In nature, something has to go wrong for this to happen, says ...
Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...
A transformation is taking place across North America. White, wriggly grubs about the size of a human thumb are walling themselves off inside rotting logs. Over the next few weeks, these larvae will ...
A mosquito larva launches its head to capture prey dangled in front of it. Hancock et al. via Annals of the Entomological Society of America Scientists have long known that predatory mosquito larvae ...
Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators 100 million years ago. Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were ...
The biological control of pest insects in the soil has come one step closer. Wageningen UR has isolated five promising fungi that kill 90 to 100 per cent of the grubs and crane fly larvae, and which ...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current ...
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New research shows invasive species are reducing insect populations worldwide and weakening ecosystems people rely on.
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