When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

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Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

Antlion larvae, along with other trap-building predators, offer a compelling model for exploring the interplay between behaviour, morphology and environment in sit-and-wait predation. These organisms ...

The animal kingdom can be even stranger than fiction. Case in point: a larva that looks more like it was made-for-TV than anything you might stumble upon in real life. Instagram account ...