The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot.

More information: Sämi Schär et al, Blow fly larvae socially integrate termite nests through morphological and chemical ...

How does a fly larva sneak into a termite nest? With a butt shaped like a termite’s head, obviously. An international team of researchers in Morocco has discovered blow fly larvae not just ...

An ingenious morphological camouflage. The larvae of this fly, from the genus Rhyncomya, have a unique structure on their posterior end: a "mask" that perfectly mimics the head of a termite.

Scorpion flies live in green spaces such as parks and eat dead insects, which they creepily steal from spider webs. ... Antlion larvae lie in the sand ready to ambush passing ants, which they grab ...

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, getting ...

The petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits. In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, the tiny petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in ...

You’re looking at a picture of larvae from a “rare and potentially destructive” fruit fly that were intercepted at the Detroit Metro Airport. Gross!

This egg then hatches into a wasp larva that sits inside the fruit fly for roughly 18 days. In the lab, the team saw that Syntretus perlmani larvae will exit the host about 23 days by bursting out ...

A NEW type of fly maggot has evolved fake faces on their rear-ends as a clever tactic to infiltrate the nests of their prey, a new study has found. Researchers found that the Moroccan fly maggot, a… ...

A Fly Larva that tolerates Dehydration and Temperatures of −270° to +102° C. H. E. HINTON 1 Nature volume 188 , pages 336–337 ( 1960 ) Cite this article ...