From photos the homeowner sent, the pests looked to be wireworms, larvae of a family of beetles common in Idaho. Falcon-Brindis, an entomologist, was ready to reply to the woman and leave the ...

Researchers have found that besides sharks, bees and platypus, even fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory ...

When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly larvae living inside a termite nest. “I immediately ...

When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before. The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had emerged onto ...

This was a brown wasp mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea), which is closely related to the lacewings. Eric Eaton, entomologist and one of the authors of the “Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North ...

Wolf spiders and occasionally crab spiders are common targets. The mantidfly larva piggybacks on its unwilling host, feeding on its haemolymph (the spider equivalent of blood). If a larval brown wasp ...

Wolf spiders and occasionally crab spiders are common targets. The mantidfly larva piggybacks on its unwilling host, feeding on its haemolymph (the spider equivalent of blood). If a larval brown wasp ...

The Indonesian government will resume a controversial policy of exporting lobster larvae, initially just to Vietnam, in exchange for investment in its own lobster-farming industry. The ban has met ...

One of those not often seen in Maine is the brown mantidfly and it looks like it was made out of a bunch of leftover insect spare parts. The brown mantidfly has a head similar to a praying mantis ...