Tag: Tachinidae

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

Newly Discovered Fly Species Parasitizes Moths in Brazil

A newly discovered fly species in the Tachinidae family has been discovered and described in the open-access Journal of Insect Science. The new fly, Lespesia melloi, is a parasitoid of […]