Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the ...

Carpet beetles are typically easy to identify; they resemble ladybirds but usually sport a yellow and brown striped shell. They can also appear fully black when mature, and their larvae often look ...

Susan and Ted are creating an insect zoo, learning about various insects such as crickets, caterpillars, and ladybird beetles. They set up cages for their pets, including a cricket and a milkweed ...

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 ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics enable transformational understanding and discovery in research by categorising any document into meaningful, accessible topics. Read this blog to understand ...

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 ...

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.

Females release chemicals called aggregation pheromones — inviting other beetles to come to that tree — and then eat tunnels (galleries) into the inner bark to lay eggs. Newly hatched larvae eat ...