The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of ...

In fact, you’ve probably even tasted this color. And it all comes from an insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico: cochineal. Instead of blood, most insects and arachnids have hemolymph, ...

If you've ventured outdoors recently, you might have noticed an unusual amount of ladybugs — or perhaps insects that appear ...

I n 2023, researchers uncovered new insights into the eerie world of fungi that transform insects into "zombies." Carolyn ...

Insects are being spotted in massive numbers clustering in the windows of Ontario homes, looking to find their way inside.

Chironomids (midges) are highly sensitive to PFAS and >95% of all their hemolymph proteins are Hbs. Using a combination of in silico, in vitro, and in vivo tools, we will test the overarching ...

ACCORDING to a popular myth there is a baffling connexion between the flowering of bamboos and the appearance of rat hordes which spread around destroying crops and eating chickens, puppies and ...

For example, the Pacific Yew tree produces a substance which is used in cancer treatments. Another example is a substance found in horseshoe crabs, hemolymph, that is used in leukemia treatments. Lyme ...

Manufacturers disinfect the crabs and drain some of their hemolymph—the crab equivalent of blood, which happens to be blue. They then isolate and lyse blood cells, producing a reagent called ...

In many invertebrates, which are prone to supercool owing to their small size, freezing is initiated by INAs in the hemolymph or other tissues. In other taxa, particularly species (e.g ...

In theory the doctored sugar water should not affect the bee. But when mites drink the bees’ hemolymph, the mites will also take in RNAi—and it should affect them. It’s as if you could kill ...