We evaluated the effects of different land-use systems on the ability of dung beetles to control the population of detritus-feeding flies. We tested the hypotheses that intensification of land use ...

European dung fly females prefer large males, making them the driving selective force behind the rare phenomenon in insects of large males and small females. This is what evolutionary ecologists ...

Sexual conflict occurs whenever there is not strict genetic monogamy. The sexually antagonistic coevolution that potentially occurs because of this conflict involves adaptation by one sex followed by ...

Researchers discovered two new species of dung flies in Australia, according to a study. Photo by Ksenia Kudelkina on Unsplash A “large” creature flapped its “patterned wings” as it navigated a ...

They are a regular summer menace across paddocks and beaches in the south west and it seems there are more and more of them each year. The bush fly. But now there is a plan to combat the annoying ...

A newly-discovered species of dung fly Azelia beuki has been named after Dutch biologist Paul Beuk who is also curator of the Maastricht natural history museum. Researcher Nikita Vikhrev discovered ...

Sperm length shows considerable phenotypic variation both inter- and intra-specifically, but a general explanation for this variation is lacking. In addition, our understanding of the genetic ...

In one of the portraits from our bizarre gallery of insect faces, you can see what happens when a fly sticks out its tongue. It’s a disturbingly human expression on an otherwise alien visage. Science ...

After rabbits, foxes, brambles and the cane toad, you would have thought Australia would have had enough of invasive exotic species, writes Jane Wright. Wrong! CSIRO scientists are introducing a ...

Livestock medications can impair beneficial organisms that break down dung. Too high a dosage of ivermectin, a common drug against parasites, harms coprophilous organisms, for instance. The toxicity ...

European and North American black scavenger flies – also called dung flies as their larvae develop in the feces of vertebrates and thus break them down – belong to the same species. Nevertheless, they ...