Maggots Could Help Address Problems Of Antibiotic Resistance
...over the past three years the clinical use of such maggots has been reintroduced into the UK and elsewhere (t...antibiotics have failed. They conclude that using maggots earlier in the management of infection may often obviate the need for antibiotics. Contact: Dr Steve...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...hich they deposit tiny larvae that grow into large maggots by eating the crickets from the inside out. Ormia can detect singing crickets using a unique set of eardrums that are located behind the head as reported in Science by Hoy and his post doctoral fellow, Daniel Robert in 1992. The flies' unique ...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...d and deposit tiny larvae that develop into larger maggots while feasting on the crickets, from the inside out. First the flies must locate and home in on the chirping cricket, Hoy notes. But for tactical reasons -- "probably to avoid being kicked off," he says -- the flies usually land close by and walk t......ed with hawthorn maggots. The apple and hawthorn maggots are common names for the same species, Rhagoletis...The scientists found that almost exclusively apple maggots only responded to apple odors, and hawthorn maggots only responded to hawthorn odors. Behavioral tes...