It sounds like something out of the "Alien" movie series, but wasps that lived during the age of dinosaurs laid eggs inside fly pupae, with the wasps eating the flies from the inside out. The study, ...

The study, published online Tuesday in Nature Communications, is the accumulation of over a century of work. The prehistoric fly pupae were discovered at the end of the 19th century, but according to ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials identified European cherry fruit fly maggots and pupae in 5 pounds of cherries traveling at Detroit Metro Airport. The ...

The pattern of gas-exchange (CO2 emission) was investigated for developing Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) pupae incubated at different temperatures. This study was ...

Parasitic wasps existed as early as several million years ago. Within a project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers of various disciplines for the first time ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered the preserved remains of parasitic wasps — including four extinct and previous unknown varieties — in fly pupae fossils. Those four wasp species were ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --Scientists have for the first time identified parasites inside ancient fossil fly pupae. Roughly half of all species on Earth are classified as parasites, but how different parasitic ...

Two or three times a day, laboratory technicians load chilled metal boxes onto small planes at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. The boxes contain millions of foot soldiers in the state's war ...

An X-ray film of a fly pupa undergoing metamorphosis has, for the first time, captured minute-by-minute details of the most dramatic part of the reorganisation process. The research by Museum ...

The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed that four new wasp species were found inside fossil pupae that date back to the Paleogene period, approximately 65 million to 23 million ...