The lifespan of adult flies varies considerably depending on the species, ranging from seven to 50 days. All flies go through a complete metamorphosis, including egg, larva, pupa, and adult stage.

UNIVERSITY PARK >> Working with mushroom growers and residents in southern Chester County, Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences is ramping up ongoing research efforts to allevi… ...

The fly larvae develop inside the ants and kill their host. Dr. Ed LeBrun, a researcher at BFL, developed the new flytraps that allowed him to map the spread of the first species of phorid fly ...

Fruit flies are pretty small. But they laugh at a species of fly recently discovered in Thailand. Dubbed Euryplatea nanaknihali, this member of the phorid fly family is less than half a millimeter ...

And I recognized them as being phorid flies, it's a group of flies that some are parasites, ... What happens is that those eggs hatch, and they hatch into little maggots, your fly larvae, ...

NEW GARDEN >> For the residents of Harrogate development, the biblical prophecies of locust swarms have nothing on them. For these homeowners and many like them in various areas of southern C… ...

A new species of phorid fly from Thailand is the smallest fly ever discovered. At just 0.40 millimeters in length, it is 15 times smaller than a house fly and five times smaller than a fruit fly ...

Hartop has looked at more than 35,000 phorid flies under a microscope over the last year to determine their species. Most of the time her microscope was aimed at the flies’ genitalia, which is ...

The Chronicle bees are going to join forces with San Francisco State University researchers to study the latest honeybee killer: the zombie fly parasite. First discovered on the San Francisco ...

Researchers at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL) have released multiple species of the parasitic flies, originally from Brazil and Argentina, to control invasive fire ants without pesticides.