The new Ophiocordyceps species, found only in flies, are related to the pathogen featured in the video game and TV series “The Last of Us.” ...

Screwworm dangers New World screwworms are the parasitic larva of a metallic blue blow fly species called Cochliomyia hominivorax. Unlike all other blow flies native to the Western Hemisphere, the ...

The flies are known to target over 230 fruit, vegetable and plant commodities. The quarantine zone stretches about 87 square miles in Southern California and includes the areas surrounding ...

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.

The flies have yellowish-brown bodies, small heads, long legs and iridescent wings that catch the light, photos show. All three new species included in the genus — Rinhatiana arctifestuca ...

National Invasive Species Awareness Week is February 24-28, 2025. Learn how to protect your plants and gardens from spotted lanternflies and more.

A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs tremendous complexity into that tiny space. Over 140,000 neurons are joined together by more than 490 feet of wiring, as long as ...

Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen, and 18 days later a larva will burst out of the side of the fly, leaving its host to die.

Put on a “termite mask” The team took a closer look at the ant’s bodies to see what types of adaptations were unique to this species of blow fly.

But the fruit fly is much more than an annoying house guest. In fact, Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most important species for science for more than a century.

Scientists found an “iridescent,” purple-winged butterfly at an Australia park and discovered a new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Braby (2024) As sunlight was shining on a ...