Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to ...

Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or ...

“The gas inside an air sac is not pressurized (it is roughly the same as the atmospheric pressure at the water’s surface),” ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are no insects in the ocean, thanks to adaptable air sacs.

They're wriggly black grubs more commonly tossed to backyard hens than served at the dinner table, but black soldier fly ...

Insects are everywhere: from fruit flies to ants to bees to cockroaches, they are seemingly inescapable. The paper eliminates a popular theory as to why insects can’t live in oceans—namely that ...

For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Friedrich Schiller University in ...

Credit: Philip Matthews Pressure-resistant air sacs allow lake fly larvae to dive hundreds of meters and complicate a ...

A Camp Denali staff member spotted this column of gnat snakeworm larvae on July 8, 2022. (Photos courtesy Jenna Hamm) Another mass of gnat larvae was reported in Fairbanks this week. University of ...

What zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient amber -- insect larvae with unusual morphologies and larvae of early flying insects. What LMU zoologists have discovered in samples of ancient ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. US customs officers inspecting a parcel at New York's JFK Airport discovered hundreds of insect larvae ...