Researchers have found that besides sharks, bees and platypus, even fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory ...

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have just added fruit flies to that list. A team of researchers led by Matthieu Louis found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the ...

A team of researchers led by Matthieu Louis found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory neurons in their ...

Treatment doesn’t harm fish, people, or birds — just black fly larva and mosquitos. This is the program’s 40th year. Rivers and streams in 35 counties will be affected, including Fayette ...

Before they emerge from the ground, crane fly larvae (sometimes called leatherjackets) munch on things like plant roots. In this phase of their development, they help with the removal of ...

Imagine tiny robotic bees buzzing around fields of wildflowers, helping real bees carry out their crucial pollinating duties decades in the future. It’s a vision that Harvard’s Microrobotics ...

Bot fly larva, aka Eskimo Candy, on the back of a caribou skin. Photo by Scott Hauge “Eskimo candy,” he bubbled, and popped it into his mouth. Bending down, he repeated the drill. Danny ate a ...

The highest numbers of pollen beetle larvae dropped at dusk, while the brassica pod midge larvae dropped significantly more at dawn than at other times of the day. With European oilseed rape ...

brocksi and found the fish primarily fed on various types of phantom midge larvae — an almost transparent insect larvae — along with insect wings and even a small bivalve, or a mollusk with ...