High-speed imaging has helped scientists better understand how baby oysters feed, but what they’ve found could be a problem for future oyster populations.

The ant that turned its own young into a tool Oecophylla smaragdina, the Asian weaver ant, called green ant across much of South and Southeast Asia, builds its nest entirely from living tree leaves, ...

Eastern oyster larvae are only 100–300 micrometers long, but their dense calcium carbonate shells make them substantially ...

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just living but ...

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) identified the larva as a new species and genus, naming it Cretosabethes primaevus. Unlike earlier fossil finds, which often feature ...

A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...