In what would make an excellent sidekick for Batman, scientists have built a fascinating, unconventional flying robot that moves its wings and flies just like a bat. Covered with a thin, silicon skin, ...

What does a student who has an interest in research, parasites, diseases and infections do? Study bot fly infestation on ground squirrels of course. Last summer, Cal State Fullerton biology and health ...

APPARENTLY everyone will soon have to take a definite stand on the question of how fast a male deer bot fly can go. This has for some months been the subject of a rather bitter controversy in ...

Sometimes entomologists get up close and personal with the bugs they study. And sometimes they incubate bot flies in their own arms until the parasites burst out of their skin a la the movie "Alien." ...

Most internal parasites of horses are worms, but bots are the larvae of a fly that needs a horse to complete its life cycle. This parasite spends most of its life fastened to the inside of the host ...