Mar. 5, 2025 — A study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the ...

A team of scientists discovered a plethora of prey - from bees, wasps, and flies to beetles, butterflies ... found in all sampled nests and nearly every larva, the findings show that Asian ...

“It was a field where there were ears,” DiFonzo said. “There were so many beetles that volcanoed out of the ground from the larvae. The adults will eat the corn silks. Each silk is attached ...

Carpet beetles are typically easy to identify; they resemble ladybirds but usually sport a yellow and brown striped shell. They can also appear fully black when mature, and their larvae often look ...

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.

Beetle larvae, or grubs, are omnivorous and likely scavenge on meat as well as debris of plants. This means they have an important role in moving nutrients throughout the forest ecosystem to ...

Two coconut rhinoceros beetles have been found on Kauai, the first such discovery of the invasive insect on a Neighbor Island, the state Department of Agriculture said Monday. A survey crew from ...

Females release chemicals called aggregation pheromones — inviting other beetles to come to that tree — and then eat tunnels (galleries) into the inner bark to lay eggs. Newly hatched larvae eat ...

The beetle is not active in winter after it lays eggs inside trees. Unless the larvae are removed from the trees during winter, imagoes would emerge again in summer and cause further damage.