The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted 5 pounds of bug-infested cherries from traveling farther at Detroit Metro ...

So What’s a Cocoon? A cocoon is distinct from both a pupa and chrysalis. It is a hard, silk shell that a moth larva weaves around itself before it enters the pupa stage of metamorphosis.

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.

The discovery of the pupal social fluid and its role in connecting adults, pupae, and larvae, adds context to this understanding of ant colonies as interdependent superorganisms.

More specifically, each pupa was leaking so much watery, golden-tinted fluid it was struggling to breathe. But they lived when Dr. Snir whisked the fluid away with a capillary tube.

For the pupae of Trichoptera, the distribution of abdominal hook plates is considered a conserved feature, characteristic of families. However, we have found that the distribution of hook plates on ...

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