About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Their larvae are cleaning up after us and the adults are pollinating ... Erica explains, 'The true flies group, called Diptera, has taken its basic body plan - three pairs of legs, a pair of wings, a ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...

Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae ... the adult female lays several hundred eggs that hatch into larvae, or maggots. Larvae pass through three instars before becoming pupae.

Joining Robin and Brian to discuss the merits of the diptera family are ... an infestation of larvae in the body. Maggots on cheese. Image source: Getty. Flies don’t have jaws and so they ...

Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.

This adaptation improves the flies' ability to locate hosts for their larvae, increasing their chances of survival. "It's important to understand how the sensory systems of eavesdroppers evolve ...

An estimated 30,000 species of fly (Diptera) call Australia home ... Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native plants. The larvae of many common hover fly species prey on pest ...