Soft-bodied robots are unlocking a new era of adaptive machines that can safely interact with the human body, squeeze through ...

In nature, up to 80 percent of Drosophila melanogaster larvae are parasitized by Leptopilina wasps. However, an innate early warning system alerts female flies when wasps are near -- they can then ...

The larva reoriented itself and began moving toward the negative electrode ... The authors aren't certain why Drosophila larvae evolved electroreception, but they've developed some hypotheses ...

Even today, the way my slightly chubby white cat scrunches when he walks resembles nothing more to me than a third instar fly larva ... ordinary and ubiquitous Drosophila melanogaster.

Dreves, Amy, Cave, Adam, Lee, Jana. "A Detailed Guide for Testing Fruit for the Presence of Spotted Wing Drosophila Larvae." Oregon State University Extension Catalog. October 2014.

The scientific name for the fruit fly is Drosophila melanogaster ... Freshly hatched larvae survive exclusively off of the food that they’re laid on. This is one of the main reasons they ...

The tiny, white worms are most likely the Spotted Wing Drosophila (fruit fly), a new pest that has ... tease open or crush the raspberry fruit carefully and look for larvae. They can initially be ...

It’s the attack of the cannibal maggots: when larval Drosophila fruit flies find themselves short of food they swarm on their companions, tearing them apart and devouring them until ...