After developing through four larval stages, the larvae metamorphose into pupas. Like the larval stage, the pupal stage is also aquatic. After two days, a fully developed adult mosquito forms and ...

This is called the larva stage. Adult birds feed their chicks in the nest until they can fly and find food. A baby is the first stage in the animal lifecycle. At this early stage, almost all ...

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ... The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring ...

All animals, including humans are born ... When these eggs hatch out, they become caterpillars. This is called the larva stage. It doesn't look much like a butterfly yet, does it?

The larval stage is the “black box” of fisheries ... Yet fish populations around the world, and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition.

Across the world, here are five animal species that have fascinating behavioral responses to moonlight. Much like the corals, ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have revealed how a specific hormone regulates ant caste differentiation by ...

castes the analogous developmental differentiation happens in the larval stage and can still be hormonally reversed. However, in some ants colony germlines are also determined earlier, in the ...