Oral myiasis, a rare parasitic infestation, occurs when fly larvae invade mouth tissues due to poor hygiene, wounds, or weakened immunity. Primarily found in tropical regions, it causes pain ...

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 ...

The researchers compared the action of traditional propolis produced by European honeybees (Apis mellifera) with that of geopropolis from the mandaçaia tree in Aedes aegypti larvae. The former ...

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 ...

In their paper published in the journal Ecology, the group describes how they discovered weevil larvae alive in some of the galls on Solanum lycocarpum plants after a fire on a farm in Minas ...

A compound found in the propolis of the stingless bee mandaçaia (Melipona quadrifasciata) has been identified as capable of killing Aedes aegypti larvae, according to research led by the ...

Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae and placed them on reefs made of recycled oyster shells. Dr. Virginia Schweiss with the Callie Mae Sea Foundation is behind the study. She said ...

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.

Despite efforts to rid both countries and even Central America of the devastation experienced in the past, the New World screwworm larva has staged a comeback. This time, however, it is not just ...

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.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A bin full of black soldier fly larvae are eating away at food waste inside the Full Circle Bioconversion barn in Old Lycoming Township. For owner Aubrey Fornwalt ...