Figure 1-figure supplement 2: Drosophila larval cold plate assay and quantitative analysis. (A) A schematic of cold plate assay. Briefly, 3 rd instar Drosophila larvae are plated on a thin metal plate ...

First- and second-instars each require about 3 weeks to develop. The third-instar actively feeds until cool weather arrives. Third-instar larvae are responsible for most turfgrass damages.

Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva. Current Biology, 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.014 ...

Adaptation speculation The authors aren’t certain why Drosophila larvae evolved electroreception, but they’ve developed some hypotheses along the way.

a,b, The development of wasp larvae inside host flies (a) is accompanied by growth of wasp teratocytes (b, black arrows), which can be seen through the host abdominal cuticle and obstruct the view of ...

Mature larvae often crawl out of fruit stored on the counter. (Doesn’t that sound wonderful?) What to do? You can make your own trap using a plastic 32-ounce cup.

There, he floated right up to the top. He's wriggling by my finger.'' He identifies it as a first-instar mosquito larvae, which are larvae shortly after hatching and are approximately 2 mm long.

Allometric growth of the third instar wing pouch in Drosophila. (A) Schematic depicting relative size of the wing imaginal discs inside a larva starting from 3 days after egg laying (AEL). The wing ...

Fourth instar larvae are voracious feeders and can cause more damage than the first three larval instars. A full-grown larva of the DBM is 10 to 15 mm long and greenish in color.

“The 1st instar larva already has as rich a repertoire of adaptive behaviors as the 3rd instar, including short- and long-term memory, value computation, and action selection.” ...

We have started analyzing the first instar larva neuropile at 3 nm/pixel resolution by means of 50 nm serial sections imaged at the electron microscope. For the purpose, we have imaged with Leginon [5 ...

Sterile male flies released in fields mate with females that then produce fewer viable offspring, drastically reducing the damage the larvae of spotted wing drosophila do to fruit crops ...