Life can’t function without insects. At least, not for long. They pollinate, break down waste, cycle nutrients, and touch ...

A Texas Standard listener wanted to know more about hover flies – also sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies because ...

Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator To avoid unwillingly birthing a baby wasp, flies filched a trick from bacteria Date: December 25, 2024 Source: University of ...

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 ...

We’re going to make 2025 the “Year of the Pollinator” (well, every year should be about pollinators because we like to eat, ...

The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of ...

A flying robot the size of a postage stamp can hover for up to 15 minutes without breaking, and it can perform acrobatic ...

Two early-stage wasp larvae removed from a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that had been parasitized by the wasp Leptopilina boulardi. The fly expressed the fusionB gene that UC Berkeley ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables ...

University of California, Berkeley biologists have shown that several species of fruit fly have stolen a successful defense from bacteria to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some ...