A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving to infix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can ...

Fly larvae can also appear under your roof. Just a moment of inattention creates perfect conditions for their development. If we don’t react in time, we may face an invasion of adult flies.

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

At an insect farm in Kenya, fly larvae are being used to combat food waste. It's part of the InsectiPro farm's mission to chip away at the 1,900 tons of organic waste produced in Nairobi every day.

“They have multiple tricks,” says Hauser. When Hauser examined petroleum fly maggots under a microscope, he noticed they’re a little more prickly than other fly larvae. He believes their rough skin ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

However, scientists report that queen black garden ants ( Lasius niger ) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1 . By doing so, the queens ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described.