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Parasitoids and Forensic Flies
Parasitoids are known to grow on blow flies of forensic importance on carcass environment and may bear impact to the blow flies and also play a role...
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Phytosanitary Irradiation of Tephritid Fruit Flies
Tephritid fruit flies are the most important high-risk quarantine pests of fresh fruits and vegetables worldwide and a major impediment to trade and...
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Fruit Flies Management in Haïti
Tephritid fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) are economically important in Haiti and significantly constrain mango exports. For years, there has been...
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Underwater Flies
This chapter, Underwater flies, zooms in further on the book’s central theme with a focus on my specific research for more than a decade: the ecology...
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Management of Fruit Flies in the Americas
This book comprises issues at the cutting edge of fruit fly management in the Americas, covering topics that are focal points of current activity and...
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Recent Developments in the Study of Forensic Flies
Since its early history of study dating back to the thirteenth century in China, with the development of different techniques, the study of forensic...
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The Black Flies of Subtropical and Tropical Asia Taxonomy and Biology
This book uncovers the entire picture of the black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) fauna in subtropical and tropical Asia (the Oriental Region). Increased...
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Forensic Flies: Advances in Study Through Morphological Evidences
Microscopy is by far the most powerful tool in identification and study of the forensic flies. Our knowledge on fly morphology, reproductive parts,...
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TephritidBase: a genome visualization and gene expression database for tephritid flies
The fruit flies in Tephritidae include many severe fruits and vegetables pests. To date, the genomes and transcriptomes of tephritid flies are...
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Hyperparasitism in bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae): new records and interaction networks in the Neotropics
Hyperparasitism is defined as the interaction where one parasite is infected by another parasite. In bat flies (Streblidae and Nycteribiidae), both...
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Fruit Flies
The third project takes a look at the data from an experiment on mating preferences of fruit flies. The goal of that experiment was to understand...
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Season and host-community composition inside roosts may affect host-specificity of bat flies
Bat flies are one of the most abundant ectoparasites of bats, showing remarkable morphological adaptations to the parasitic habit, while the...
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Unveiling the hidden dangers: enteropathogens carried by flies in Pudong New Area
BackgroundFlies are acknowledged as vectors of diseases transmitted through mechanical means and represent a significant risk to human health. The...
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Feeding Drosophila gut microbiomes from young and old flies modifies the microbiome
It is becoming increasingly evident that the myriad of microbes in the gut, within cells and attached to body parts (or roots of plants), play...
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DNA barcoding of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Indonesia
BackgroundDNA barcoding is a valuable taxonomic tool for rapid and accurate species identification and cryptic species discovery in black flies....
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Elevated ozone disrupts mating boundaries in drosophilid flies
Animals employ different strategies to establish mating boundaries between closely related species, with sex pheromones often playing a crucial role...
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Humidity and temperature preference in two Neotropical species of sand flies
BackgroundArthropods vector a multitude of human disease-causing organisms, and their geographic ranges are shifting rapidly in response to changing...
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Pathogenicity of entomopathogenic nematodes to dipteran leaf miners, house flies and mushroom flies
BackgroundThe entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), especially in the 2 families Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae, are important biocontrol agents...
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Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Synthetic Cattle Breath Volatiles Attract Host-Seeking Stable Flies, Stomoxys calcitrans
Stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), are blood-feeding ectoparasites of cattle. Host-seeking stable flies respond to various cattle host cues, but...
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Bartonella Infection in Fruit Bats and Bat Flies, Bangladesh
Bats harbor diverse intracellular Bartonella bacteria, but there is limited understanding of the factors that influence transmission over time....
