The nasal bot fly life cycle is a marvelous example of evolutionary WTF-ery. Adult reindeer bot flies look like harmless fluffy bees , and have a slight buzz to their flight.

Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide.

A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot. Bat Bot is nothing short of an engineering marvel. It weighs in at only 3.3 ...

The human bot fly's life cycle works like this: Adults have just a few days to mate, and after that, a female will catch a mosquito, lay her eggs on it, and set it free.

Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2 to 3 millimeters wide. They were removed last week.

Named Bat-Bot, the new drone looks and flies like a real bat and might be the next big thing in the drone technology.

Long talk story about the bot fly, and Dr. Townsend-Dr. Langmuir controversy as to its speed. Dr. Townsend,a specialist in the study of Diptera (flies, gnats, and mosquitoes), first published his ...