Mouth larvae, or oral myiasis, is a rare but concerning condition arising from poor oral hygiene or compromised health, leading to larvae feeding on dead tissue. Untreated infestations can cause ...

A parasitic wasp forces its host to weave a special web for its own ends. On the evening that it will kill its orb-weaving spider host, the larva of the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis sp.

If you're hoping that reef-restoring coral larvae will settle down in damaged reefs, you can't just sit around and wait for it to happen. You have to get out there and entice the larvae ...

Luckily, nature has already done the hard work. Drosophila or fruit fly larvae have a remarkable escape strategy—they roll away from danger. A study by researchers from China found that the ...

Galls shelter the larvae of the insects that made them grow, and they protect newborns from predators, parasitoids and adverse weather conditions. It turns out that this perfect nursery can also ...

The District Emergency Response Committee (DERC) was informed that during field surveillance across Rawalpindi, dengue larvae were detected in 12,452 homes out of a total of 3,036,721 surveyed.

More questions are being asked about the school lunch programme after a dead larva was found in a meal. Photos of the chicken, potato and vegetable meal delivered to a West Auckland school show a ...

The shiny brown larvae are long and thin. Their body appears to be made up of many segments with a tough outer hide. When uncovered, wireworms move quicker in the soil compared to other insect ...

Hundreds of the larvae form together to make a snake-like chain and slither across yards and driveways. Danielle Rainsford, who lives in Forest, said she and her family were fascinated by the ...

"After observing that the mutants seemingly avoided warm temperatures, we gave a new name to the gene, bishu, which is a Chinese word for 'summering,' describing the escaping behavior of larvae ...

Any idea what is happening? A: The damage is actually caused by the larvae of a sawfly insect. They are commonly called rose slugs. The sawfly adult looks like a small black to yellow wasp.