It also brings the dreaded quagga mussel. The destructive aquatic invasive species infest lakes and reservoirs, typically ...

As long as humans are trading and traveling, plants and animals will be hitching lifts. The tools to track and mitigate the ...

Last year, with maritime traffic limited in the Patapsco River channel during the typical planting season, oysters grown in ...

If you're hoping that reef-restoring coral larvae will settle down in damaged reefs, you can't just sit around and wait for it to happen. You have to get out there and entice the larvae ...

In their paper published in the journal Ecology, the group describes how they discovered weevil larvae alive in some of the galls on Solanum lycocarpum plants after a fire on a farm in Minas ...

By all accounts, freshwater mussels are boring creatures. From the time they fall off their host fish as a larva and settle ...

More questions are being asked about the school lunch programme after a dead larva was found in a meal. Photos of the chicken, potato and vegetable meal delivered to a West Auckland school show a ...

From mysterious colossal squid to the ferocious pram bug, these creatures are stranger than fiction. Found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the flower hat jellyfish (Olindias formosa) glides ...

Slugs may not be everybody’s idea of an ideal pet, but they’re fascinating creatures. These shell-less gastropod mollusks are ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Shellfish collectors in Peru make a living harvesting a special mollusk called the barquillo, a primary ingredient in a world-famous ceviche dish. But hunting the ...

Baby lice or larvae are nymphs. They look like miniature adult lice, about the size of a pinhead, or 1.1 to 1.3 mm. They crawl to the scalp to feed on blood daily. Nymphs undergo three stages of ...