Short clips of insects doing everyday things. On this page:
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Beneficials (parasitoids)
Watch the moment a parasitoid wasp lays its egg into an aphid
See a parasitoid emerging from the parasitised aphid ‘mummy’
Beneficials (predators)
Hoverfly larva searches for and successfully finds an aphid snack
Minute two spotted ladybird adult and larva munching on aphids
Green lacewing larva sucking on a mealybug
Caterpillars
Armyworm on barley
How much can a looper eat?
Caterpillar movement: ‘slinking’ (helicoverpa) versus ‘looping’ (looper)
Webbing in action (beet webworm)
Plague proportions
Locust nymphs in a sorghum crop
Rutherglen bug nymphs making the ground ‘crawl’
