J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...

Scavenger worms have crawled the Earth for 100 million years. From bone-eating worms that fed off plesiosaurs to today’s mealworms and maggots that feast on decaying organic matter in the backyard, ...

With the ax blade, she gently peeled a strip of bark from a ... When beetles bore into a tree, the fungi slip out of the suitcases and grow alongside the larvae, providing them with nitrogen ...

The majority of bark beetles are female; males are smaller and flightless. Adult beetles can be reddish brown or black in color, while larvae are white and legless. Female bark borers seek out ...

If the beetles are able to burrow and eat below a tree’s bark, it can kill them ... “They’re turning it over, looking for larva, fully grown beetles, eggs and the like.