Kauai’s crickets were in trouble. They were being victimized by a parasitic fly that targeted them by listening for their chirps. Once the fly found them, its larvae burrowed inside the crickets and ...

Research from St. Olaf College and the University of Denver, published in Current Biology, found that a parasitic fly in Hawaii has evolved to eavesdrop on the mating calls of Pacific field crickets.

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this unusual fly develops and gives live birth—a rare phenomenon among flies. Led ...

Within just 5 years, singing has nearly died out among a population of cricket on a Hawaiian island, researchers report. A mutation for silence has spread so fast because an invasion of deadly flies ...