Perhaps the biggest threat comes from natural disasters, which climate change is making more common and intense. Take the ...

Red Deer's mosquito population has thankfully not exploded despite rainy periods in July.

An insect with incomplete metamorphosis has 3 life stages: egg, nymphs, and adult (no pupa). Eggs hatch to a small nymph, which resembles (not perfectly) what the adult will look like. Nymphs go ...

The book discusses insect metamorphosis as a key innovation in insect evolution. With most of the present biodiversity on Earth composed of metamorphosing insects--approximately 1 million species ...

Many people imagine that during metamorphosis, as the larval cells begin to die or rearrange themselves, the body of the insect inside its cocoon or exoskeletal casing turns into something like a ...

With insect metamorphosis, the time line runs, so to speak, backward, with the more recent development, the larva, appearing first and then proceeding as if reversing in time, to become the ...

WATCH: An infographic detailing the life cycle of a mosquito – Jun 15, 2016 It’s a two week life cycle that starts after a female lays eggs on the surface of standing water.