There are concerns New World screwworm flies, which can be dangerous to humans, could cross into southern Texas.
The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.
Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded animal." ...
The state's Parks and Wildlife Department is asking hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts to watch out for animals that may be impacted by dangerous "maneater" parasites from flies that lay eggs ...
The state's Parks and Wildlife Department is asking hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts to watch out for animals that may be impacted by dangerous "maneater" parasites from flies that lay eggs ...
Parents claim that pupils have had to deal with flies crawling all over toilet cubicles and having their lessons disturbed ...
Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...
The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches.
The ability to tolerate toxic substances can help animals find new food sources and thrive in certain ecological niches. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now ...
The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of ...
Adam Henry, a Fort Worth-based urban biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said cattle egrets are attracted to ...
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.