Mosquitos are the bane of many people’s existence, especially since their bites aren’t just annoyingly itchy; they can also spread potentially deadly parasitic diseases. Even the larvae of certain ...

Mouth larvae are parasites that hatch and live inside the oral cavities of human and animal hosts. These pests can cause a dangerous infection called oral myiasis. This disorder rarely occurs in ...

From water to air: we only know many flying insects as adults, but many of them have their first life stages in the water. The larvae of mayflies, for example, spend almost a year in the shallow shore ...

The open ocean is a veritable soup of tiny critters, including newborn fishes. It’s hard to learn about them, though, because they are mere millimeters long and semitransparent. When netted from ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

A mosquito larva launches its head to capture prey dangled in front of it. Hancock et al. via Annals of the Entomological Society of America Scientists have long known that predatory mosquito larvae ...

A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a brain-like cluster of neurons in sea urchin larvae, traditionally ...

The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and can shed more light on the evolution of the insect. It represents ...