“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

What are nature's best spies? Well, it turns out they just might be fly larvae that can infiltrate termite nests undetected.

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

Nature is full of cunning trickery, but few are as audacious as the blow fly. Imagine not only altering your smell and ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

After Philadelphia scores a touchdown, the crowd belts out the lyrics of a song in one shared voice: "Fly, Eagles Fly! On the road to victory!" "Fly, Eagles Fly" has become the defining anthem of ...

The most widely studied maggot is the larva of the vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila have been the focus of genetic research for over a century: in the 1910s, they were used by Thomas ...

Founded in the UK in 2003, for the last 10 years Fly has been operating in the mobile phone markets of Russia, Ukraine, India, Southern Europe and the CIS. The company that started out with feature ...