Researchers from The Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have identified the exact nerve cells in the brain that drive ...

Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied how fruit flies tune their development in response to environmental ...

Shoo fly!

Most people (except for our ever-curious toddlers) don’t like bugs. We particularly dislike them when they’re swirling around ...

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied how fruit flies tune their development in response to environmental ...

Since their larvae are dependent on the host’s body for their first phase of life, it behooves the wasp to improve conditions in the body in whatever way it can. For example, some parasitic wasps are ...

Johannesburg’s summer weather creates perfect breeding conditions for flies. In warm and wet conditions the fly problem is ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts ...

The U.S. has opened its first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades in southern Texas. The opening announced Monday is part of a larger effort to keep a ...

Johannesburg residents and business owners have been battling a noticeable increase in flies, with restaurants, homes and public spaces reporting swarms that are becoming harder to control. According ...