The Green Party is increasingly concerned of the wider trend of cuts to public services. Public service workers have received thousands of workforce adjustment notices, and unions have warned that ...

Abstract: Fruit flies has a big biological and economic importance for the farming of different tropical and subtropical countries in the World. Specifically in Brazil, third largest fruit producer in ...

Researchers from the University of Guelph in Canada have reported an astonishing discovery: that the number of chromosome sets in their bodies’ cells seems to be linked to the rate at which the ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Malaria remains a recurrent public health disease. Several plasmodial species are vigorously implicated in malaria infection. The aim of this study is to assess the risk of ...

Buzzing insects may be seen as pests -- but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows. Buzzing insects may be seen as ...

ABSTRACT: The order Diptera and the suborder Nematocera include blood-sucking insects known as Culicidae. They are prominent either because they act as vectors for pathogenic organisms of certain ...

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Total number of unique taxa identified at the selected taxonomic level (i.e. order, family, genus, species). Richness of a stream can decline as flow regimes are altered, habitat is lost, chemicals ...

Passing through a cloud of gnats on a walk is no fun. Learn how to avoid these tiny flyers in, and outside of, your home. (Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) Gnats are annoying little critters. They ...

Diptera is the insect order with the greatest economic impact on humans. It includes agricultural pests, and vectors of human and animal diseases, but also insects that play a very important role as ...