But many other insects – including beetles, flies, moths and butterflies ... Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native plants. The larvae of many common hover fly species ...

Evidence of grubs (beetle larvae) often goes unnoticed until populations build to levels sufficient to kill grass roots, resulting in localized discolored patches in lawns and turf. Property ...

Predators include ladybird beetles, ground beetles ... The adult looks like a wasp and she lays her egg in a wheat stem and the larva feeds inside the wheat stem. That parasitoid will find ...

Yet some insect larvae are predators, and a small number of these have developed highly efficient imaging systems out of simple stemmata. “The adults and pupae of holometabolan insects — beetles, bees ...

These wood-boring beetles fly to forest fires in great numbers and mate while the forest is still burning. Females then deposit their eggs under the bark. The eggs hatch into larvae that feast for ...

Beetle larvae, or grubs, are omnivorous and likely scavenge on meat as well as debris of plants. This means they have an important role in moving nutrients throughout the forest ecosystem to ...

Goliathus cacicus is the smaller of the two giant beetle species; it's up to 95mm long (normally 60–84mm) and lives only in mature rainforests.Goliathus regius can grow up to 105mm long ...

Lady beetles have four stages of metamorphosis, which are the eggs, larvae, pupae and then the adult stage most of us recognize. The larvae stage is also predatory and will eat other harmful insects.

The Bebb Herbarium is a member of the Texas-Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) which has consolidated their plant collections into a online database. Developing a comprehensive resource ...