Sentences with word «phorid»

Researchers have experimented with insecticides and ant contraceptives to fight back, but another strategy has garnered more attention recently: importing parasitic phorid flies from South America that typically attack the ants.
Parasitic phorid flies are another problem, and highly contagious infections also pose significant threats.
For example, some research has shown that invasive fire ants sometimes stay in their nests and avoid foraging to prevent infection by phorid flies, allowing native ants to regain territory.
Because the flies inflict this fate only on invasive fire ants and not other ant species, Texas officials have begun releasing phorids in the hopes of slowing down the fire ant spread.
Parasites like phorid flies want to lay their eggs in the ants, while other ants merely want to steal the valuable real estate.
«This hints at the many remarkable behaviors of phorid flies that may still await discovery by the patient observer.
Last year DISCOVER brought you the gallery «Zombie Animals and the Parasites That Control Them,» but we missed one: Fire ants have a South American nemesis, the phorid fly, that takes over a fire ant's mind.
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