Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...

Fruit fly larvae’s alluring and socially important odor turns out not to come from the flies at all, but from their gut microbes. Scent is a big deal to Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. Both ...

It all started with the can’t-tear-your-eyes-away video of black soldier fly larvae devouring a 16-inch pizza in just two hours. Watching sped-up action of the writhing mass inspired mechanical ...

Did you know that the world's deadliest animal is the mosquito? And Aedes aegypti is one of the most dangerous. This bug spreads viruses that cause dengue fever, which was recently declared as an ...

How do mosquito larvae catch their prey? By using their heads. In attacks that are too swift to be seen with the naked eye, predatory aquatic larvae, which measure about 0.75 inch (2 centimeters) long ...

The science world has found its Gerber baby, and it’s a 3-week-old lobster from Maine. An otherworldly photo of the colorful lobster larva, taken by a University of Maine graduate student, won a ...

Join citizen scientist Craig Hensley as he searches for monarch eggs and larva on milkweed as a way to gather important data on monarch butterfly migration. My name is Craig Hensley. I'm a naturalist, ...