The mating of flies that lay maggots on blueberries with flies whose maggots prefer snowberries has created an evolutionary oddity: an emerging fly species whose maggots eat only honeysuckle. The ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.

About the size of a fruit fly, these all come species in a single genus, Megaselia, of the fly family Phoridae. The discoveries are being described in the journal Zootaxa, which comes out April 6.

More than meets the fly: Related species share space by (mostly) staying apart. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 10 / 221026103148.htm.

Over 110,000 fly species have been described, but there may be more buzzing about. Flies can be a nuisance if not kept under control. They are also known to carry diseases, ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ochracea ( O. ochracea ). A new study published this week in the Annals of ...

The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...

Researchers have published an official description for Scenopinus jerei, a new fly species from Finland. Only about 420 species of window flies are known, most of them from the arid regions of the ...

The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

A fly that may be the world's smallest gets named after a very big celebrity thanks to its oddly oversized legs. Arnold Schwarzenegger fly species earns name from 'big arms' - CNET X ...

Fly fishing guide Geoff Klane casts his line into Willard Brook as his dog Leroy looks around at the water on Aug. 17, 2023, in northern Massachusetts. As Geoff Klane secured a homemade fly to the ...