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Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.
Black flies are very tiny, blood-sucking flies in the insect family Simuliidae. Contrary to their name, black flies may be ...
Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...
Adding hundreds of thousands of honeybees into a previously balanced residential environment disrupts it substantially.
The Luna Moth is the fairy of the insect world with pale green wings shaped ... introduced in North America for weed control, since its larvae feed on ragwort, a toxic plant.
A casual search through the front-page headlines of our national dailies would reveal that one news item the media take seriously is politics. The second most important is business and finance. The ...
From the coffee in our cups to the fruits and vegetables on our plates, pollinators, especially bees, are the unsung heroes of our food system.
The larvae depart the ‘mines’ they have created from feeding and build silk cocoons on small leaves ... that make them valuable alternatives in insect pest control. There is biological control ...
Rent Mason Bees, the nation's largest solitary bee provider, has partnered with researchers at the University of California, ...
After weeks as a leaf-devouring caterpillar wrapped in a cozy cocoon, it emerges with ... raise their young like no other insect. Inside the female, a single larva grows through all three stages ...