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It turns out there are two different types of these tiny bugs: phorid flies and fruit flies. One can be a sign of serious ...

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

Drain fly larvae, known as maggots, can also develop in water. The larvae are often overlooked, however, because they are so small. The life cycle of a drain fly can last anywhere from 8 to 24 ...

2. Botflies will make your skin crawl – literally You may have found The Fly films scary, but fact is more gruesome than fiction. The larvae of botflies are parasites found in the flesh of ...

We tested the host specificity of two South American Pseudacteon phorid flies, P. obtusus Borgmeier and P. borgmeieri Schmitz, on North American colonies of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis ...

Fly larvae can also appear under your roof. Just a moment of inattention creates perfect conditions for their development. If we don’t react in time, we may face an invasion of adult flies.

Some of the larvae were described as being of an unidentified blue fly; these are almost certainly very early references to myiasis caused by the New World screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel ...

While drain fly larvae may not be visible inside the drain, adult drain flies may be seen congregating on the surrounding sink or walls. To get rid of drain flies for good, it’s often necessary ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described.

At an insect farm in Kenya, fly larvae are being used to combat food waste. It's part of the InsectiPro farm's mission to chip away at the 1,900 tons of organic waste produced in Nairobi every day.