Why flies are being dropped. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to breed massive numbers of adult male flies and then sterilize them using radiation. These sterile ma ...

The pest spawns flesh-eating larvae that could devastate the American beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

The US Government will be opening a fly factory in Texas to mass produce millions of infecund flies as part of a sterilization campaign aimed at eliminating the flesh-eating parasite screwworm.

A fly’s life span consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Egg: Flies typically lay their eggs on a moist substrate. This can be a dead animal or other decaying organic matter.

Flies belong to the order Diptera. The term ‘fly’ is commonly used for any insect in this order, but not all flying insects are true flies. The order Diptera includes all true flies; the name means ...

‘Mini-Waco’: How sanitiser stockpiled for fly larvae farm sparked Anakie blaze Tens of thousands of kilograms of expired hand sanitiser that fuelled an enormous suspicious blaze at Anakie was ...

Crane flies are the largest representative of true flies (including robber flies, fruit flies, moth flies and others), with 15,726 recognised species of crane flies, of which 1,475 are found in India.

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The fly larvae discovered in Morocco exploit this chemical communication to deceive termites. By perfectly mimicking the odor of their host colony, they avoid being identified as outsiders. This ...

Last December, Kennett Square Mayor Matt Fetick called the phorid fly infestation “a true emergency in our community and the greater region,” and promptly signed an emergency declaration on Dec. 2 ...

"The larvae, the immature stages of the fly, live in the leaves of the plant. They're leaf miners, they leave little trails in the leaves," Whiteman said.