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From photos the homeowner sent, the pests looked to be wireworms, larvae of a family of beetles common in Idaho. Falcon-Brindis, an entomologist, was ready to reply to the woman and leave the ...

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 ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes ...

When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before. The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had emerged onto ...

The larvae have pale, worm-like bodies covered ... Some thrip species eat crops and are considered pests. Springtails are hexapods measuring up to 0.24 inches long, although they may appear ...

Some produce aquatic larvae that then change into aquatic frogs ... who managed to capture this extraordinary image of a raspberry-coloured springtail next to a ballooning slime mould. Measuring just ...

Although measuring less than 2mm in length, a globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta) is technically easy to find in most people’s backyards—provided you don’t spook it. If the common ...

That honor belongs to a tiny little bug called a globular springtail, whose superfast backflips have now been caught on slow-motion camera for the first time. The globular springtail is a common ...

High-speed cameras have captured in vivid detail how springtails flip themselves into the air, showing that they spin faster than any animal ever recorded. Springtails, a type of arthropod in a ...

The springtails were also able to launch themselves over 60 millimeters into the air -- more than 60 times their own height. And in most cases, they went backward.