The female fly lays her eggs — up to 100 in her lifetime of one month — often on plant leaves teeming with sap-sucking insects that can destroy your crops and landscaping.

Colored eyes, like those of the soldier fly above, serve a specific purpose in insects: they narrow down the information being processed by each of the tiny lenses.

Rarely, sheep bot fly larvae can enter the eye sockets of humans—as was the case with the 53-year old Frenchman—most likely in areas where people live in close proximity to livestock.

Chen said other common Hawaii plants, including plumeria and mango, also have potentially toxic sap that can injure eyes, but the worst cases she’s seen lately involved crown flowers.

The San Joaquin Valley giant flower-loving fly resembles a stealth fighter. It can hover in mid-air and then instantly fly away at speeds difficult for the human eye to follow. Detailed studies of the ...

This test came in handy last autumn when doctors suspected they were seeing a spike in warble fly infections in Finnmark County. Can Attack the Eyes Once the correct diagnosis is made, the prospects ...

Question: Auwe! Online there are a lot of people teaching how to make lei, which is great, but they also need to warn people about picking the flowers because some are toxic!