Caribbean fruit flies have been detected around Montebello, prompting California’s first quarantine for the species in 40 ...

Yellowjackets make me anxious, but this young man remained calm when these wasps crawled up his arm or landed on his juice ...

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen. “All known parasitoid wasps of flies attack and develop inside immature life stages,” study co-author and Mississippi State ...

CBP agriculture specialists at Detroit Metropolitan Airport intercepted live larvae from a rare and potentially destructive fruit fly earlier this year. A specialist at the USDA Systemic Entomology ...

A portion of Los Angeles County has been placed under quarantine for the Caribbean fruit fly (CFF) following the detection of ...

State officials have imposed a quarantine over parts of southeast Los Angeles County, including East Los Angeles, after two ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

(CBS DETROIT) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday that live larvae that were intercepted earlier this year at the Detroit Metro Aiport were confirmed to be a rare and "potentially ...

The complete set of neurons in an insect brain, which were reconstructed using synapse-resolution electron microscopy. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/University of Cambridge Understanding how a ...

The portion of the fruit fly larva brain mapped in this project includes roughly 1,600 of the 10,000 neurons contained in a larva's entire brain. The adult fruit fly brain comprises roughly 100,000 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp ...