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 ...

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 ...

In fact, two of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals—eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and reducing child mortality rates—can be directly addressed by expanding consumption of edible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...