By Will Hawkes As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of tiny black dots, pelting like bullets past me. I hauled open ...

A team of researchers led by Matthieu Louis found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory neurons in their ...

A study on the closely related housefly (Musca domestica), showed that the larvae produced by just 50 flies (25,000 eggs) can decompose up to 444 kg of pig slurry, transforming it into organic compost ...

brocksi and found the fish primarily fed on various types of phantom midge larvae — an almost transparent insect larvae — along with insect wings and even a small bivalve, or a mollusk with ...

Increased solid retention time through frass recirculation did not significantly affect pathogen inactivation but considerably improved the yield of larvae per treated tonne of food waste. The results ...

explaining that the patient had developed the condition after eating undercooked pork infected with tapeworm larvae. In the final stage of the disease, the cysts degenerate and die, leaving a ...

Plaster bagworms may be sound unfamiliar to most people, compared to other insects such as mosquitoes, bees and wasps, even though these peculiar pests can be seen strewn over their house walls.

You might have watched a video on TikTok and other social media of people putting strawberries in salt water, prompting tiny larvae to emerge from the otherwise unblemished berries. It sounds ...

Scavenger worms have crawled the Earth for 100 million years. From bone-eating worms that fed off plesiosaurs to today’s mealworms and maggots that feast on decaying organic matter in the backyard, ...

However, in a relatively short period of time a number of forms of learning have been described in zebrafish larvae, and significant progress has been made toward their understanding. Here we provide ...