Mushi tori or bug catching, has long been a favorite activity for both children and adults in Japan. Whether it's collecting ...

Insects may have complete or incomplete (simple) metamorphosis. The life cycle of insects with complete metamorphosis includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Eggs hatch to give rise to a worm-like larva ...

While many people from outside Guangdong province shun insects as food, bug dishes are common on dinner tables in the ...

First detected in the U.S. in Dallas in 2004, crape myrtle bark scale is a sucking insect that feeds on the sap of plants. It ...

Biologists guessed a generation ago that the metamorphosis of insects (changing from larvae to pupae and from pupae to adults) is probably controlled by a chemical hormone. Three years ago Dr ...

The larva of an insect makes a hormone which keeps it from changing into a pupa until it has reached its full growth. Recent experiments with this substance have produced both dwarf and giant ...

Neglected or well-tended, gardens can provide valuable habitats for our pollinators and there is a lot we can do to help reverse insect decline ...