Beetles are classified in the order Coleoptera (sheath-wing). The front pair of wings is hardened into cases (called elytra) ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

Beneath the rocky soil of Morocco, researchers have uncovered a surprising intruder living undetected inside termite colonies ...

“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

With the growing popularity of games such as Factorio and Satisfactory, it is no surprise that indie developers are putting ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

She is the mother of all the ants. That means she lays the eggs, that hatch into the larvae which in turn, become the adult ants. ADAM:'The ants in a colony are not all the same. There are ...

This rare blow fly species has larvae that fit right in with the termites down to copying their odor.

As it had rained a lot and the butterflies were not flying, we looked for ants. When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before. The water had ...

While winged termites and weaver ants are the most common, adult bees and bee larvae, wasps, crickets, silkworm pupae and larvae, beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, snails and giant water bugs are ...