“Larvae chew through cardboard and plastic storage and can quickly take over your pantry.” While pantry moths don’t carry disease, finding their webs in your dry goods or knowing they’ve ...

and the case-bearing clothes moth (Tinea pellionella). It is the immature larvae, rather than the adult moths, that cause the damage to natural fibres such as woollen clothing, upholstery, carpets and ...

The most common pantry pests are different types of beetles and moths. Both beetles and moths go through a four-stage life cycle of egg, larva (grub), pupa, and adult. The beetle grub and adult st ...

Today, Oz's native societies still thrive on insects like honey-pot ants — which use their bodies as a portable pantry — and witchetty grubs, or large, wood-eating moth larvae. Roasted ...

The female moths don't have legs or wings, so they can never venture far from their cocoons. After mating, they return to the cocoon and hatch their larvae. And when the young hatch, they immediately ...

Two clearwing moths appear to have hitched a ride when they were larvae, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana, South America, before ending up in Port Talbot. Three months later ...

It is believed two clearwing moths accidentally hitched a ride when they were still larvae inside a photographer’s boot bag, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana before ending ...

It is native to Guyana, South America. The photographer had brought the moth's larvae with her in her suitcase. The larvae had hatched and pupated in the suitcase during the journey. When the ...

Mexican jumping beans are sold as toys, something you might buy on vacation at the boardwalk, but they're actually seeds infected with the larvae of little white moths. The seeds "jump" when the ...

Anna Purtell et al, Altered Heat-Avoidance Behavior Following Damage to the Extended Architecture of Mexican Jumping Bean Moth Larvae (Cydia saltitans), Journal of Insect Behavior (2024). DOI: 10. ...