It sounds like something out of the "Alien" movie series, but wasps that lived during the age of dinosaurs laid eggs inside fly pupae, with the wasps eating the flies from the inside out.

Scientists have observed ants feasting on a nutrient-rich substance released by other ants. Pupae, ants in the last stage of ant metamorphosis before they become adults, secrete the liquid. Both ...

A four-year-old girl has had 80 worms removed from her ear after an insect attracted to foul smells and dirty conditions entered the orifice. Radhika Mandloi, from a small village in Dhar, Madhya ...

Some males sit on the pupae of female butterflies for up to 10 days before they hatch, to get first dibs at mating with them – but how do they know it's a female in there?

Several species of ant have been observed producing a liquid while in a pupal stage that is consumed by ant larvae and adults, and this is likely to occur across all ant species ...

Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have ...

Non-biting blow fly Chrysomya megacephala is commonly found in dead bodies and is used in forensic investigations to determine the time of death, referred to as the post mortem interval. A report ...

The Centre for Health Protection has confirmed a Chrysomya bezziana infestation case involving a 78-year-old woman living in a Sha Tin extended care hospital. The patient developed symptoms like the ...

Fossil fly pupae contain evidence of a fascinating —and deadly — story of insect parasitism in the ancient world.

SAN FRANCISCO — Blowflies don’t sweat, but they have raised cooling by drooling to a high art. In hot times, sturdy, big-eyed Chrysomya megacephala flies repeatedly release — and then ...