The animal kingdom can be even stranger than fiction. Case in point: a larva that looks more like it was made-for-TV than anything you might stumble upon in real life. Instagram account ...

A parasitic wasp castrates its moth larvae hosts by injecting them with a ‘domesticated’ virus that causes cells in the larvae’s testes to die. Now, scientists know exactly how the virus does its ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recently, a few insects, including the caterpillar larva of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella, have been identified as avid ...

The larva of a moth found in Tennessee has been dubbed the “Trumpillar” because it resembles the hair of President Donald Trump. According to a news release from U.S. Pest Protection, one of its ...

Blindfolded insect larvae opted to perch on twigs matching their body coloring about 80 percent of the time Arjen v'ant Hof Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most peppered moths sported speckled ...