What the return of the New World screwworm to the United States means, and seven things you can do to protect your horse.

Black soldier flies' larvae are remarkably efficient decomposers, capable of turning a wide range of organic materials into ...

A species of parasitic wasp has evolved one of the strangest survival strategies in the insect world, turning its caterpillar ...

Doctors in Spain diagnosed a man with an unusual roundworm infection after watching an army of larvae writhe and slither under his skin, blanketing his whole body in an ever-shifting rash. Doctors ...

Imagine enjoying a tasty dinner alone at home—you may freely indulge without worrying about others. Now imagine sharing the same meal with friends or colleagues: depending on the social context, you ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

MINUSCULE larvae seem helpless in the face of massive ocean currents. Yet it turns out some of them don’t just drift with the currents, but instead stay surprisingly close to home. The finding could ...

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly ...

For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, has demonstrated that insects can mimic floral scents to ...

Inside New Zealand's limestone caves, larvae barely visible to the naked eye have engineered a hunting trap so effective it ...