Jurassic fossils of a bizarre fly larva that lived in water as a blood-sucking parasite highlight how much can be learnt from the study of the fossils of immature insects.

The African fig fly, Zaprionus indianus, is recorded for the first time from Jordan. Samples of this fly were collected from heavily infested dates (Madghool variety) from a farm in the central Jordan Valley. In addition, it was reared in the laboratory on apricots, cherries and figs. Our preliminary observations, photographs for the adult insect, larva and pupa are presented. The pest distribu...

Known as a promising protein source, black soldier fly (BSF) larva has attracted the attention of many researchers. BSF larvae have ability to convert organic waste into protein. However, growth modeling this process not been studi

Myiasis is an animal or human pathogenic condition initiated by parasitic dipterous fly larvae feeding in the host's necrotic or living tissue. Here we report a case of external ophthalmomyiasis caused by Lucilia sericata in a 78-yr-old with a vascular tumor of the retina and surgery history, from Bijar City of Kurdistan Province, Iran in 2015. Associated symptoms included right eye pain with m...

contamination of human and animal body tissues with flies’ larvae and diptera cause myiasis. a 26 yr old female patient refers to kashan shahid beheshti hospital, central iran because of urogenital infection, pain in the right part of stomach, smelly and reddish vaginal discharge and frequent urination. in the first checking, urine sample was taken. in the sample, active and alive larvae were s...

A fly larva was recovered from a boil-like lesion on the left leg of a 33-year-old male on 21 November 2016. He has worked in an endemic area of myiasis, Uganda, for 8 months and returned to Korea on 11 November 2016. The larva was identified as Cordylobia anthropophaga by morphological features, including the body shape, size, anterior end, posterior spiracles, and pattern of spines on the bod...

We have described a new case of accidental intestinal myiasis that had occurred due to Eristalis tenax in Iran. A 4-year-old girl living in rural area near Bajestan city located in the south of Khorasan Razavi province visited the hospital lab with complaints of one live larva in feces and did not have other symptoms, except anal itching. This case had a history of consuming subterranean villag...

Boris Ephrussi and George Wells Beadle [5] developed a transplantation technique on flies, Drosophila melanogaster [6], which they described in their 1936 article "A Technique of Transplantation for Drosophila [4]." The technique of injecting a tissue from one fly larva into another fly larva, using a micropipette, to grow that tissue in the second larvae, was a means for investigating developm...

The first-instar larva of the hanging-fly Bittacus trapezoideus Huang & Hua, 2005 is described using scanning electron microscopy for the first time. The eruciform larva bears three pairs of thoracic legs and eight pairs of abdominal prolegs. Like other species of the family Bittacidae, the larval head is remarkable for bearing a median ocellus frontally and a pair of compound eyes laterally. E...