These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery implements—and their geographic range is ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests ...

“The only thing in the world that these phorid larvae can eat are the growing mycelia,” Wolfin said. He described phorid flies as a worldwide pest. The state’s quarantine order, which will ...

Its brain works out the trigonometry of your hand to ensure the best escape trajectory. Muscles on the outside of its chest ...

Texas wildlife officials are warning the state’s cattle industry to be on the lookout for a flesh-eating parasite that can be deadly for animals.

The quarantine order requires growers to treat mushroom houses and soil between harvests to kill the flies, larvae, bacteria, and pathogens before they spread. The state is helping farmers fight ...

Very little is known, however, about how animals perceive food texture, so Komarov and his colleagues turned to study the phenomenon in a species that’s easy to manipulate — fruit flies. Specifically, ...

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Sting from a scorpion Onset of local pain and tingling after a scorpion is seen in the area The main symptoms are pain, tingling and numbness at the sting site About 85% cause only local symptoms at ...