The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower ...

Animals such as the orchid mantis mimic the look of flowers, and the corpse flower emits a smell like rotting meat to attract ...

Like wily perfumers, a parasitic beetle’s larvae create floral aromas to lure in bees. Plants are known to cosplay as animals, but this rare discovery could be the first known example of an animal ...

In the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi), workers in a colony alternate between caring for larvae and laying eggs in a ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...