Molt remains of feather-feeding beetle larvae intimately associated with downy feather portions from an unidentified theropod dinosaur in Early Cretaceous amber of Spain.

The awkward stage of adolescence drives some insects to murderous home invasion. When the time comes to shed their skin, certain beetle larvae in Greece scout out a sleeping snail, break into its ...

Carpet beetle larvae molt and leave behind empty skin casings. “It usually looks like the size of a grain of rice and is light brown,” Wang says.

Carpet beetles are notoriously difficult to get rid of because once they enter your home, they will lay eggs on nearly every surface available to them. ... The larvae molt their skin, ...

“The beetle larvae lived — feeding, defecating, molting — in accumulated feathers on or close to a resin-producing tree, probably in a nest setting,” says Enrique Peñalver, a member of the team and a ...

Click beetles are a species of beetle. Learn about the different types, what they look like, and where they live. Skip to main content . ... The larvae molt several times, ...

They spend about a year in larval form, molting three times and growing larger each time. (Based on its large size, mine had likely already finished its last molt.) The larvae then enter the pupal ...

R. S. Janke et al., Bacterial ectosymbionts in cuticular organs chemically protect a beetle during molting stages, ISME Journal, 2 September 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01311-x ...

The larvae tortoise beetle Cassida sphaerula uses its telescopic anus to build a shield made from shed skin and its own feces. (Image credit: Caroline Simmrita Chaboo/Sally Adam/Kenji Nishida/Luke ...

As KFOX14/CBS4 reported, the City of Socorro has been dealing with a massive Red Flour Beetle infestation, ... "And it prevents them from molting to the next life stage and they die.

Lagria beetles have developed unusual physical traits to protect their progeny: Small invaginations on the backs of the larvae are inhabited by defensive bacteria. As shown in a new study, the ...