The assassin bug, beneath its creepy camouflage, uses a needle-like mouthpart to paralyze prey and suck out their liquefied insides.

Anopheles mosquitoes have long, thin palps near their mouths that are about the same length as their main mouthpart. Culex pipiens mosquitoes can spread the Japanese Encephalitis virus ...

In the Ocean Hall some 100 sea creatures reside preserved in glass jars. Each specimen has its own unique traits, and together the collection represents the vast diversity of sea life. Here is a ...

It also keeps them well moisturized. If the larva ends up submerged, it can still chow down. It sweeps slime particles out of the water with a hairy mouthpart called the labrum and rakes them in with ...

Beyond manual removal, it is common to ensure the eradication of these distasteful dipterans from our patients with medications such as nitenpyram. An alternative is any of the isoxazoline drugs. The ...

Hardly anything is known about the genetic basis and mechanism of male-killing. Recently, a gene called oscar, in the bacterium Wolbachia, was implicated in killing male corn borer moths by ...

The newly hatched maggots are white and worm-like, with a segmented body, head, and tail. They have a mouthpart that they use to feed on decaying organic matter. Maggots feed voraciously, multiplying ...

In many agricultural landscapes where field drainage is required to enhance crop production, agricultural drainage ditches, and their associated banks and hedgerows can support riparian biodiversity, ...