Impregnated female codling moths lay their eggs on the tree’s leaves and developing fruit. The tiny white eggs will hatch within a couple of weeks, and the larvae, little worms with pinkish ...

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common insect Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) from honeycombs in her ...

They feed on beeswax, and their natural niche is the honeycomb; the moth lays its eggs inside the beehive, where the worms grow to their ... Editor at Penguin Random House, helping to relaunch ...