Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.

Tree squirrel bot fly larvae get into through the mouth, nostril or other orafice to grow and eventually pop out. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Guardian Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

After bulking up, the larvae transform into handsome adults about the size of a fruit fly. Although they have wings, they spend much of their lives strolling on the surface of the tar pits.

(Image credit: Peddalanka Ramesh Babu/Getty Images) A man's itchy eye was due to more than a dozen fly larvae that were squirming around inside his peeper, according to a new report.

What are screwworms? The New World screwworms get their name from the way the larvae burrow into an open wound of a host. Unlike most maggots that tend to feed off of dead flesh, the screwworm ...

A “rare and potentially destructive” fruit fly larvae was seized from a traveler in the Detroit airport, customs officials said. Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Nestled within a ...