We observed leaf-cutter ants taking the easy route when possible since they crawled ... This arrangement evolved as a defense against the phorid fly (wasp) which tries to deposit its egg on the neck ...

Texas researchers across the state are finding a solution to fire ants and it is coming from South America. The Phorid fly is a parasitic breed that finds its host in fire ants. This breed is ...

They can also threaten young calves. But now the researchers are trying a tiny phorid fly, native to a region of South America where the fire ants originated. Researchers have learned that fire ...

Some species in the Phoridae fly family lay eggs in the bodies of ants, and the resulting larvae feed in the ants' heads, eventually causing decapitation. In fact, some of these phorid flies are ...

A new species of phorid ... fly and five times smaller than a fruit fly. The tiny fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali, is also the first of its genus to be discovered in Asia, and it belongs to a fly family ...

A newly discovered phorid fly is less than half a millimeter long and, if its like its relatives, parasitizes and decapitates tiny ants. Sophie Bushwick reports Fruit flies are pretty small.