drosophilae, which parasitises fruit fly pupae (the stage just before they become an adult), and Asobara japonica, which parasitises early-stage fruit fly larvae. Multiple studies have already ...

Herman Kimondo with some of the larvae ready to be fed to livestock /ALICE WAITHERA AT 26 years of age, Herman Kimondo has carved his niche in agriculture, becoming a role model for many of his ...

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

When the wasp stings a developing fly pupa, the bacterium travels with the venom. The wasp then lays its egg on the pupa, and the hatching larva consumes the pupa, along with the bacteria.