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 ...

Researchers have discovered blow fly larvae with fake termite faces on their rears that enable them to socially integrate ...

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

This rare blow fly species has larvae that fit right in with the termites down to copying their odor.

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 ...

A South Australian business is using black soldier fly larvae to convert food waste into pet food and products for the agriculture industry. Now the business has partnered with a local grape ...

Leiderman, who does our theme music - associate the texture of food with taste, and that includes fruit fly maggots ... do these maggots like and dislike? First, Komarov engineered larvae without ...

“There were flies, cats, birds and even raccoons hanging around, and we found a maggot in the salad one evening. “The whole experience was nothing compared to what a five-star hotel should ...

It is called the most dangerous cheese in the world because it is a maggot-infested cheese. Tiny flies called cheese skipper flies lay their eggs in its cracks. These eggs later hatched, the maggots ...

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 ...

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