The USDA best describes the etymology of the name screwworm: ...

DEP monitors and treats 48 rivers and streams spanning more than 1,800 miles for black flies, also knows as gnats.

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate using sensory neurons, as discovered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara.

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...

Fruit flies are arguably the most commonly used experimental ... This is often used to sort DNA fragments, but Riedl used it to immerse a Drosophila larva in an electric field.

The fly can lay eggs inside the ant’s head. Fly maggots that hatch will then slowly decapitate the ant. | Credit: Sanford Porter Within days after hatching, the phorid larva migrates from the ...