Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

Combine scanning electron microscopy and elemental analytics: the best-in-class EDS geometry of Sigma increases your analytical productivity, especially on beam sensitive samples. Get analytical ...

Encourage children to love science by showing them the world in miniature with some of the best microscopes for kids — here are our favorite models. The best microscopes for kids allow children ...

Another study focused on the trichoideum sensillum in the insect Nabis rugosus, where researchers utilized scanning and transmission electron microscopy to explore the mechanical functions and ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

This rare blow fly species has larvae that fit right in with the termites down to copying their odor.

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

The lead investigators used scanning electron microscopy and other techniques to examine the puparia and the single psyllid wing. Each fossil was kept safe in carbonaceous mudstone. This find boosts ...