Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

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An assistant professor in Nova Scotia has been awarded a five-year grant to study the double impact of microplastics and climate change on aquatic organisms.

Many amphibians begin their lives by hatching from eggs as aquatic larvae and then undergo metamorphosis, a restructuring of the anatomy and physiology to modify their bodies to suit life on land.

With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae attack and capture prey in aquatic habitats. Published in the Annals of the ...

However, when salamanders with aquatic larvae mature, they lose their gills and move onto land. Axolotls keep their larval features their whole lives (known as neoteny), causing them to stay ...

Bti is a larvicide that targets black fly (Simulidae) larvae in streams, and is widely used across the Adirondacks to reduce the adult stage flies that plague humans. A study in the 1980s was ...

Larvae of C. lebetis mine in the stems of the submersed aquatic weed hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata (L.f. Royle), causing sufficient damage to the apical meristem to preclude further growth. The ...

Like the larval stage, the pupal stage is also aquatic. After two days, a fully developed adult mosquito forms and breaks through the skin of the pupa. The adult mosquito can fly and has a ...