An industrial-scale Portuguese study shows black soldier fly larvae reared on naturally contaminated restaurant food waste do ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...

The life of an insect begins with an egg. And among insects, there are those that become larvae, then pupae, and finally ...

A common insect larvae could be inadvertently contributing to microplastic pollution in our rivers and waterways by chewing up litter, a new study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ...

A study of the rolling motion of fruit-fly larvae has enabled researchers to create a soft robot that can rotate by itself. Maggots as robot models. Insect larvae, such as those of the fruit fly (also ...

What zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient amber -- insect larvae with unusual morphologies and larvae of early flying insects. What LMU zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient ...

Hundreds of pests were found inside a package of fake flowers at a New York City airport, officials say. Giorgio Trovato via Unsplash A bundle of flowers in a package shipped to the U.S. was fake — ...

The heaviest insect larva is the full-grown larva of the actaeon beetle Megasoma actaeon, which is native to the northern regions of South America. The heaviest full-grown specimen on record for this ...

Growing Degree Days (GDD's): None available at this time. Females cause a tiny amount of damage to the edges of host plant leaves as they lay their eggs. Tiny scars are formed as a result of female ...

What LMU zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient amber – insect larvae with unusual morphologies and larvae of early flying insects. All fossils are time capsules. But unlike many other finds ...