An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...

March fly larvae, which develop underground, are formidable predators. Equipped with venomous fangs, they actively hunt and subdue prey. Many beetle species visit flowers to feed on nectar and pollen, ...

But many other insects – including beetles, flies, moths and butterflies ... Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native plants. The larvae of many common hover fly species ...

When these interact in the presence of oxygen, they emit light. Adult fireflies do not eat but firefly larvae mostly eat snails, which helps keep snail populations under control. Beetles in the scarab ...

Yet some insect larvae are predators, and a small number of these have developed highly efficient imaging systems out of simple stemmata. “The adults and pupae of holometabolan insects — beetles, bees ...

These wood-boring beetles fly to forest fires in great numbers and mate while the forest is still burning. Females then deposit their eggs under the bark. The eggs hatch into larvae that feast for ...

When the workers notice that that most of the spaces (comb) in the hive are starting to get filled up with honey, pollen, and larvae, they will communicate with the other workers in the hive with ...

Others are social, living among tens of thousands of their sisters, hive mates, and queen mother ... Most bees find their flowers or other bee larvae as prey by individual initiative.