Today is day 3 of #30DaysWild During our evening #hedgewatch in our garden we discovered many #ladybird #larvae
They are very welcome in our place because they love to eat #aphids
Today is day 3 of #30DaysWild During our evening #hedgewatch in our garden we discovered many #ladybird #larvae
They are very welcome in our place because they love to eat #aphids
While pruning dead branches off a hydrangea yesterday I found some residents inside one of the hollow stems. I'm going to try to rear them up to adulthood, so stay tuned if you like mysteries. Wasp? Carpenter bee? #hydrangea #stems #larvae #insect #wasp #hymenoptera
#Lauxaniidae (#Acalyptratae, #Diptera) are smaller #fly species that often prefer the proximity of forests. Their #larvae, as a #saprophagous developmental stage, feed on dead wood or other decomposing plant #debris. The author, C. H. Marchiori (2024), has #studied the #biology, morphology, and systematics of this and other fly taxa.
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Reference
C. H. Marchiori (2024)
https://doi.org/10.32388/LME4ON.3
Photo
Non determined #mating Lauxaniidae, Berlin, 2020-2025,© S. F. Wirth
All #active #tick #stages (including #Larvae !) feed on #deer , thus enabling #cofeeding #transmission of tick-borne #Diseases
#FREE #Full #text #PDF available at https://goo.gl/gEAbfN
#Ixodes #ricinus #Capreolus #capreolus
#EU #FP6 #EDEN #Project #Emerging #Diseases in a changing #European #eNvironment #Epidemiology #Ticks #Parasites #Pathogens #Science #Scientific #Research #Data #OpenAccess #DOI #Germany #Deutschland #Europe #Europa #TBD #Zoonoses #ZoonoticDiseases #TickBorneDiseases
Original Article: Morphology, but not morphometry, identifies instars in 𝐸𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑚 ant
Sauvaget, M., Guérineau, C., Zimmer, C., Savarit, F. & Fénéron, R. #development #growth #larvae #article
https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1650&Itemid=444
Threat detected!
Combining #molecular and #chemical analyses, #bioactivity tests and #insect performance bioassays, Chen et al. report on elicitors in the frass of striped stem borer (SSB) #larvae. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13852
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#PlantSci #JIPB #herbivory #CropSci #botany
Yellow-collared Scape Moth (Cisseps fulvicollis)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow-collared_Scape_Moth_(Cisseps_fulvicollis)_-_Guelph,_Ontario.jpg
Elephant Hawkmoth (Deilephila elpenor)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Hawkmoth_(Deilephila_elpenor)_-_H%C3%A5,_Norway_2021-08-09.jpg
The #antbagbeetle #Clytra laeviuscula (#Chrysomelidae, #Coleoptera) is a #phytophagous #beetle #species widespread in Europe with a #myrmicophilic relationship of the #larvae and #pupae to #antnests of the genera #Formica, #Lasius and Camponotus. The larva lives mainly from the food of the ant larvae. It is protected from ant attacks by own dropping pieces (#skatoconches). Pupation also takes place in this protected manner. #evolution #biodiversity
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The #clickbeetle #Agrypnus #murinus (#Agrypninae, #Elateridae) is #phytophagous as #adult #beetle, while the #larvae are soil dwellers and feed on roots, but also as predators, particularly targeting the larvae of other insects.
The species is #widespread in the Near East, the #easternPalearctic and the Nearctic realm. White and brown #scales give the species it's impressive look. The base color is darker. #Biodiversity #entomology
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Extremely well-preserved #fossil #sawfly sheds new light on co-#evolution of #insects and toxic plants https://phys.org/news/2024-10-extremely-fossil-sawfly-evolution-insects.html paper by Juanita Rodriguez et al.: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12653
"They eat the leaves of #Myrtaceae—woody #plants that include eucalypts—because they have mouthparts with which they can separate toxic oils or a chemical detoxification system inside their gut. This enables the #larvae, sometimes called spitfires, to use the oils as a defensive weapon."
seht mal diese schwarzweiße schönheit
die larve einer blattwespe, athalia scutellariae
Never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for parasitic wasps.
The dark side of #gardening.
Two views of Asian tiger mosquito larvae. The first shows several lurking right below the surface, the second shows one floating upside down. #mosquitoes #larvae #insects #diptera #entomology
If you need to know what mosquito larvae look like, here you go. These are probably Asian tiger mosquitoes. The different sizes are because they go through four larval instars as they age, followed by a pupal stage that doesn't feed. The youngest instar is barely visible even when you zoom the video. Some species take less than a week to mature into an adult, which is why you should dump containers of stagnant water every several days. #mosquitoes #larvae #diptera #insects #aedes
#LadybugLarvae & #Ladybug butt.
There were tons of ladybug #larvae crawling all over this #aphids infested plum tree. I only saw one mature ladybug but am sure there's more on the tree that I didn't see. They have a huge aphids buffet to feed on.
Sea urchin larvae can get nutrition from molecules dissolved in seawater https://oceanbites.org/whats-on-your-plate/
Integrative biological analyses of responses to food deprivation reveal resilience mechanisms in #SeaUrchin larvae https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17120
"these #larvae feed on dissolved organic matter — basically just any of the organic goop found in #seawater... This way, even when regular food is unavailable, #SeaUrchins can gain sufficient energy from molecules in the seawater itself. The sea is soup."