Here’s why Torontonians are seeing more midges in the spring, what the insect is actually up to and what it means for our environment.

The tiny, cloud-forming bugs belong to the family known as Chironomidae ... They begin life underwater as larvae, feeding on sediments and organic debris, and when they mature, they rise en ...

Utilisation of BSF larvae could help to stem the expansion of damaging palm oil production, researchers from UK-based consultancy Tunley Environmental, claim in a new study. Cultivation of palm for ...

Aim To study the composition and population dynamics of Chironomidae (Diptera) from a high-altitude tropical stream in Ecuador. Methods Samples were taken at Saltana River between April 2009 and ...

Similar to clothes moths that eat away at your wool sweaters, the larvae of carpet moths tend to feed off natural fibers in carpets, and other soft furnishings instead. This allows larvae to grow ...

Females midges often lay more than 100 eggs at a time that develop into small larvae. They live in damp habitats, such as bogs, ponds, and even the surface film of water often found on saturated ...

The Indonesian government will resume a controversial policy of exporting lobster larvae, initially just to Vietnam, in exchange for investment in its own lobster-farming industry. The ban has met ...

While much of the by-products of silkworm pupae like oil and animal feed are developed from spent pupae, the scientists used “fresh or green” pupa for coming out with food products for human ...

Pupa anime hasn't had a positive legacy (Image via Studio Deen). It's worth pointing out that the Pupa anime has some of the lowest ratings in MAL and Anilist, as well as struggling massively with ...