Adults mate and lay eggs. It is important to understand life stages because pest controls usually target the damaging or most vulnerable stage of insect development. Timing is also a factor. We know ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature.

For example, most parasitoid wasps feed upon their host (another arthropod) during larval development, and then nectar-feed as adults. The more omnipresent form of omnivory in insects, which will ...

During embryonic development, the intestine of the Drosophila ... The Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway is known to be ... Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme carries out Research and Development activities (R&D) at the Insect Pest Control Laboratory located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories in ...