Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) maintain the balance of pond ecosystems. They feed on other aquatic organisms, such as mosquito ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia ...

There are so many amazing reasons to live in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Most notably, we have a diverse ...

The team also noticed that modern-day gigantic sharks, such as the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), as well as many other gigantic aquatic vertebrates like ...

Mouth larvae are parasites that hatch and live inside the oral cavities of human and animal hosts. These pests can cause a dangerous infection called oral myiasis. This disorder rarely occurs in ...

South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zátiší 728/II, Vodňany ...

Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar. These specimens demonstrate the ...

Ionic liquids are salts with melting points below 100 oC and are therefore liquids at lower temperatures than other salts. The materials can have useful physical properties, such as low or non ...

This careful meta-analysis evaluates consumptive and non-consumptive effects of aquatic predators across multiple mosquito ... the young mosquitoes are particularly vulnerable to being eaten by ...

This report presents the effective treatment of hazardous waste—antibiotic bacterial residue—by black soldier fly larvae (larvae), oxytetracycline bacterial residue (OBR), and soya meal with mass ...

Aquatic ecosystems are under increasing stress from global anthropogenic and natural changes, including climate change, eutrophication, ocean acidification, and pollution. In this critical review, we ...

Approximately two weeks after introducing adult beetles, all of the dispersing larvae that were ready to pupate from each breeding box were collected and allocated to a small, individual pupation box.