The pupa is a transitional stage to the adult where its true legs, wings, and antennae form. In the case of a butterfly, the pupa is inside the chrysalis (other insects may spin cocoons or pupate in ...

Ecdysis is an extremely vital process to the growth and development of many organisms. But, what is it exactly?

In fact some adult insects don’t feed at all. In effect each individual insect embodies within its own life a division of labour, enabling each life stage to be superbly good at what it has ...

As vegetable garden planting begins, visions of last year’s insect problems may invade gardeners’ minds. Will bean leaf ...

Ion induced X-ray fluorescence was used to analyze adult and immature stages of Solenopsis richteri Forel and S. geminata (F.) for total body concentration of 16 major and trace elements. Results ...

During the nymph stage, they feed on algae and small plants; as adult mayflies, they do not have functioning mouths and cannot eat. This means an adult mayfly insect survives in adulthood for only ...

Ah, the bounty of spring: all the tender new foliage on trees and shrubs, flowers galore and prolific growth in the vegetable garden. We gardeners revel in the abundance the season brings, and ...

can complement the sterile insect technique (SIT) in area-wide integrated pest management programmes. While under the SIT sterile males are predominantly released at the adult stage, many of their ...

The pupa, or intermediate stage between the larva and the adult, occurs the following spring and is the last immature phase of the insect’s development cycle. Adults emerge from the pupal stage ...