Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China ...

Have you ever wondered why thrips, an insect so miniscule in size and ungainly in appearance, provoke such teeth-gnashing cries from all of us? Is it because they disfigure our flowers (Figure 1)?

This helps distinguish them from other beetles. Young Japanese beetles are called larvae or grubs. Their bodies are about an inch long and curled into a C shape. Japanese beetle larvae have brown ...

Campylomma singapura, for instance, has also been observed to feed on thrips – small insects commonly associated with flowers. Upon closer inspection, Dr Yasunaga, a research associate at the ...

The sudden spread of dengue mosquitoes and larvae off-season has triggered serious concern among the health department. Experts warn that the recent downpours followed by intense heat have created ...

Principle WP is a bioinsecticide based on the active ingredient Beauveria bassiana that delivers resistance-free control on thrips, aphids, whiteflies and more. The proprietary formulation is labeled ...

The lampricide application, announced in a Thursday press release, will target an estimated 4,800 sea lamprey larvae in the creek. Lampreys are a type of parasitic jawless fish that can kill other ...

The lampricide application, announced in a Thursday press release, will target an estimated 4,800 sea lamprey larvae in the creek.

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods ...

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 ...