Tag: parasitoid fly

Citizen Science Delivers “Unprecedented View” of Monarch Butterfly Parasitoids

Thanks to citizen volunteers, scientists now know more than ever about the flies that attack monarch butterfly caterpillars. Since 1999, volunteers participating in the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project have collected […]

Entomology Today July 10, 2017 1 Comment

New Research Reveals How Flesh Flies Hear

By Ed Ricciuti Scientists have clocked many hours studying how females of various parasitoid flies home in on the calls of cicadas, grasshoppers, and other insects that are their hosts. […]

New Species of Fly is First in Its Family to Parasitize Ants

By Josh Lancette Researchers in Panama have discovered a new species of fly in the family Chloropidae. The name of the new species is Pseudogaurax paratolmos, as reported in a […]