“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

In the mountains of the Anti-Atlas in Morocco, a fly larva has developed a camouflage strategy that is as surprising as it is ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

Nature is full of cunning trickery, but few are as audacious as the blow fly. Imagine not only altering your smell and ...

What are nature's best spies? Well, it turns out they just might be fly larvae that can infiltrate termite nests undetected.

A NEW type of fly maggot has evolved fake faces on their rear-ends as a clever tactic to infiltrate the nests of their prey, ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

Research from St. Olaf College and the University of Denver, published in Current Biology, found that a parasitic fly in ...

The Mission Impossible franchise is famous for its mask reveals. A dubiously explained technology allows an innocuous silver ...

Researchers found that the Moroccan fly maggot, a previously unknown type of fly larva, had developed butts that look like termite heads. The two-faced larvae were discovered by chance ...