Howler monkeys in Costa Rica are facing a growing threat from bot fly larvae infestations, and new research points to tourism and land use changes as key drivers. A study by the Awá Science and ...

Long talk story about the bot fly, and Dr. Townsend-Dr. Langmuir controversy as to its speed. Dr. Townsend,a specialist in the study of Diptera (flies, gnats, and mosquitoes), first published his ...

A fly’s life span consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Egg: Flies typically lay their eggs on a moist substrate. This can be a dead animal or other decaying organic matter.

The property’s tenant, Andrew Porter, has revealed he was using the highly flammable product to insulate and heat one shed as part of a soldier fly larvae breeding enterprise aiming to supply ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A bin full of black soldier fly larvae are eating away at food waste inside the Full Circle Bioconversion barn in Old Lycoming Township. For owner Aubrey Fornwalt ...

Drosophila or fruit fly larvae have a remarkable ... where a laser was used to remove or destroy certain sections of muscles to determine which of the larva's 11 segments was essential for ...

Texas is no stranger to the New World screwworm, but it’s been about 50 years since the fly wreaked havoc in the Lone Star state. The fly is most notorious for laying eggs in open wounds of living, ...