Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark ...

GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Sen. Gary Peters is calling for funding in the federal farm bill to help fight an invasive fly that has been damaging fruit crops in Michigan and across the ...

In 2023, researchers were in the process of introducing the samba wasp to control the SWD population. Michigan State researchers introduced a second wasp into the equation: the ronin wasp, another ...

In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator fly, revealing how shifting dominance patterns make pest management ...

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea, and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects that exist only to make our lives a misery. But with ...

The insect I have photographed here only has two wings. Bees and wasps have four wings. Obviously, this insect is a fly. More specifically, it is a fly known as a flower fly. There are many different ...