An adult cicada flies from a clover flower in Washington ... and climb on trees — or things they mistake for trees — to molt. They shed their exoskeletons, coming out as creamy-colored ...

Where You'll See This Year's Cicada Brood. There’s no telling exactly where this year’s cicada brood will show up, but based on past data, Crumbley says they’re expected to ...

A variety of flies, crickets, moths, and mealworms are suitable for adults; however, young mantises feed on aphids and fruit flies ... of praying mantises with molting, making it easier for ...

Their radiation resistance stems from their slow cell division rates—cells are most vulnerable to radiation damage during division, and cockroach cells divide only when they molt, which happens ...

A team of researchers have created a new resource for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies.

The sterile fruit flies will be released weekly to combat Mediterranean fruit fly infestations. The flies threaten over 250 ...

Environmental officials in California’s San Francisco Bay and East Bay areas are releasing millions of sterile fruit flies to reduce the number of pests leading to produce decay. The fruit flies ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

The new mass-rearing facility will eventually be capable of producing 130 million sterile Mediterranean fruit flies per week. To leverage this new infrastructure, a workshop on using the SIT for ...