Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...
John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...
University of Maryland entomologists discovered that a gene critical for survival in other insects is missing in mosquitos--the gene responsible for properly arranging the insects' segmented bodies.