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 ...

A team of biologists has stumbled across a new species of wasp in an unlikely place: the back end of an adult fruit fly. The wasp is a previously undescribed species the researchers named Syntretus ...

The images show the abdomen of flies in which a specific enhancer region has been modified. Depending on how much and which part of the region is modified, different areas of the pigment pattern ...

In recent years, scientists have uncovered many amazing wildlife discoveries worldwide, including a bird that emits light and ...

A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

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