Scientific discoveries are typically made through observations of the natural world. From watching an apple fall from a tree ...

Both larval and adult beetles often have chewing mouthparts and eat plants, so both growth stages are of concern for control. Moths and butterflies are other examples, where the larva is a caterpillar ...

They are usually rounded, have hardened forewings that must be raised for flight, and possess chewing mouthparts. Let’s check out what beetles eat. What Foods Do Beetles Eat?

• Chewing mouthparts. Plant tissue is bitten, ripped, torn or rasped off. Damage includes holes in leaves, buds, roots, seeds, fruits or woody parts of plants; missing leaves; ...

Crane flies are usually one of the first signs that spring is here. Texas A&M AgriLife's website says the larvae, often found under layers of decomposing leaves, have chewing mouthparts and feed ...

“The adults do not have chewing mouthparts or a needle-like sucking mouth like a mosquito. The adult crane flies have reduced mouthparts. Some species feed on nectar, moisture, and many do not ...

Chewing mouthparts are visible and the larva has worked its way across the blade. It looks as if a razor blade has precisely shaved a stripe across the blade’s epidermis.

That perception might stem from cicadas’ lack of obvious chewing mouthparts, like those possessed by very hungry caterpillars, says James Hepler, a research entomologist at the U.S. Arid Land ...

Orkin explains that, unlike cicadas, locusts do have chewing mouthparts that allow them to consume "almost all or any part of a plant that is above ground.

Odaraia was likely among the earliest of the mandibulates, an arthropod group with chewing mouthparts called mandibles. Jean-Bernard Caron/Royal Ontario Museum.

To recap, aphids are small insects that have piercing-sucking mouthparts (I didn't mention that piercing-sucking thing last week, but in my world, the distinction between those and chewing ...