The peskiest pests of summer seem to be out in full force lately. Wherever there’s food, garbage or feces in the state, flies have been ubiquitous, ruining picnics and buzzing around peoples’ ears and ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

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Jul. 26—ALMA — In a quiet field of abandoned blueberries and shrubby brush in south Georgia, Cera Jones released hundreds of tiny parasitic wasps into the thicket and watched them fly away, following ...

Researchers discovered novel attractants that may improve Tsetse fly traps and help control disease spread. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark ...